1st Edition
Women Writing Home, 1700-1920 Vol 3 Female Correspondence Across the British Empire
By Klaus Stierstorfer, Deirdre Coleman, Cecily Devereux, Susan Clair Imbarrato, Charlotte J Macdonald
Copyright 2006
358 Pages
by
Routledge
Assembles a range of women's letters from the former British Empire. These letters 'written home' are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off lands sent home to Britain and, occasionally, other centres established as 'home'.
Volume 3 Canada: Introduction. Epistolarity and Empire: Women’s Letters and the Construction of Colonial Space in Canada Note on the Texts Part I: Early Colonial Period: British North America in the Late Eighteenth Century Elizabeth Russell to Elizabeth Fairlie Kiernan, 1792–9 Part II: Women and Settlement, 1832–1918 Rebecca Radcliff to the Reverend Thomas Radcliff and ‘Bridget Lacy’ to ‘Mary’, 1832 Alice Rendell’s Circular Letters, 1903–5 Barbara Alice Slater to Lilian (‘Lily Anna’) and Ellen Clement, 1809–18 Part III: Colonial Administration: Women and the Hudson’s Bay Company Frances Simpson Isobel Finlayson Letitia Mactavish Hargrave 1Part IV: Travelling Women Anna Brownell Jameson to Ottilie von Goethe, 1836–7 Clara, Lady Rayleigh, to her Mother, 1884
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Klaus Stierstorfer, Deirdre Coleman, Cecily Devereux, Susan Clair Imbarrato, Charlotte J. Macdonald
