Author: Deborah Weston
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Letter to Dear Henry & Maria
Author: Deborah Weston
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Letter to Dear Henry and Maria
Author: Anne Warren Weston
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Letter to Dear Maria & Henry
Author: Caroline Weston
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Letter to Dear Henry
Author: Maria Weston Chapman
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent
Author: J.I. Little
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022800750X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly spelled, the fifteen surviving volumes of Henry Trent's hitherto unexamined diaries are nevertheless a treasure for the social and cultural historian. Henry Trent was born in England in 1826, the son of a British naval officer. When he was still a boy, his father decided to begin a new life as a landed gentleman and moved the family to Lower Canada. At the age of sixteen Trent began writing in a diary, which he maintained, intermittently, for more than fifty years. As a lonely youth he narrates days spent hunting and trapping in the woods owned by his father. On the threshold of manhood and in search of a vocation, he writes about his experiences in London and then on Vancouver Island during the gold rush. And finally, as the father of a large family, he describes the daily struggle to make ends meet on the farm he inherited in Quebec's lower St Francis valley. As it follows Trent through the different stages of his long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age. The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the thoughts and follow the experiences of a man who, like many Victorian-era immigrants of the privileged class, struggled to adapt to the Canadian environment during the rise of the industrial age.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022800750X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly spelled, the fifteen surviving volumes of Henry Trent's hitherto unexamined diaries are nevertheless a treasure for the social and cultural historian. Henry Trent was born in England in 1826, the son of a British naval officer. When he was still a boy, his father decided to begin a new life as a landed gentleman and moved the family to Lower Canada. At the age of sixteen Trent began writing in a diary, which he maintained, intermittently, for more than fifty years. As a lonely youth he narrates days spent hunting and trapping in the woods owned by his father. On the threshold of manhood and in search of a vocation, he writes about his experiences in London and then on Vancouver Island during the gold rush. And finally, as the father of a large family, he describes the daily struggle to make ends meet on the farm he inherited in Quebec's lower St Francis valley. As it follows Trent through the different stages of his long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age. The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the thoughts and follow the experiences of a man who, like many Victorian-era immigrants of the privileged class, struggled to adapt to the Canadian environment during the rise of the industrial age.
Letter to My Dear Henry
Author: Maria Weston Chapman
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The Letters
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674528307
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
These letters of a man deeply concerned about his country, directly involved in political action, and torn, as the Civil War approached, by the conflict between his abolitionist zeal and his Quaker pacifism--letters here collected for the first time and many of them hitherto unpublished--shatter the stereotype of Whittier as "the good gray poet." The many letters to such figures as John Quincy Adams, Charles Sumner, and William Lloyd Garrison form a detailed record of the abolitionist movement from its inception to its merging with the Free Soil party in the 1850s. The first two volumes reproduce all the extant letters from 1828 to 1860, with full annotations. The last volume is selective, excluding several thousand perfunctory items and including only the historically or biographically interesting letters of the last three decades of the poet's life.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674528307
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
These letters of a man deeply concerned about his country, directly involved in political action, and torn, as the Civil War approached, by the conflict between his abolitionist zeal and his Quaker pacifism--letters here collected for the first time and many of them hitherto unpublished--shatter the stereotype of Whittier as "the good gray poet." The many letters to such figures as John Quincy Adams, Charles Sumner, and William Lloyd Garrison form a detailed record of the abolitionist movement from its inception to its merging with the Free Soil party in the 1850s. The first two volumes reproduce all the extant letters from 1828 to 1860, with full annotations. The last volume is selective, excluding several thousand perfunctory items and including only the historically or biographically interesting letters of the last three decades of the poet's life.
Letter to My Dear Maria
Author: Henry Grafton Chapman
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The United States Letter Writer
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Category : Commercial correspondence
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Commercial correspondence
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The United States Letter Writer
Author: The United States Letter Writer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752580607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752580607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.