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Immigrant
life-writing
nineteenth century literature
Quaker
Transatlantic
Women writers
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- ISBN 9781399523578
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This edition offers the complete text of the first published edition of Mary Howitt's Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), based on the letters sent by her immigrant sister in Cincinnati to her family in England. Supplementing the base text are a detailed record of all variants in the first London edition (1849), a critical introduction, explanatory notes, a selection of supplementary materials drawn from contemporary sources, a guide to the historical figures on which Howitt's characters were based and a guide to further scholarship on Howitt. Subjects include the daily activities of the immigrant family, as well as significant historical material, such as slavery, abolition and the persistence of northern racism; the Shakers; Native American boarding schools; the Mexican-American war; and more.
Donald Ingram Ulin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh in Bradford, Pennsylvania. He has edited Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier, the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson (2022). He has also published in Victorian Studies, Victorians Institute Journal, Cultural Critique, Victorian Poetry, the European Journal of American Studies, the European Romantic Review and elsewhere, mostly on changing representations of the English countryside.
