Writing Home

Writing Home

Author: Emma Alderson

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2020-10-16

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 1684481961

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Writing Home is the critically annotated correspondence of Emma Alderson, an 1840s immigrant from England to Ohio, mingling details of daily life with observations on slavery, American customs, religious communities, the impending war with Mexico, and more. Ending with Alderson's death in 1847, the letters formed the basis for Mary Howitt's popular children's book Our Cousins in Ohio (1849).