Author: Karen Lystra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-03-26

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0197514227

Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, racially diverse nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. Wrongly assumed to be inarticulate on paper, these laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved.