Writing Home – A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Bot…

Writing HomeA Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson\nAuthor(s): Donald Ingram Ulin, Emma Alderson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781684481965, 978-1684481965\nSynopsis\nWriting Home offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Emma Alderson, an otherwise unexceptional English immigrant on the Ohio frontier in mid-nineteenth-century America, who documented the five years preceding her death with astonishing detail and insight. Her convictions as a Quaker offer unique perspectives on racism, slavery, and abolition; the impending war with Mexico; presidential elections; various religious and utopian movements; and the practices of everyday life in a young country.\n Introductions and notes situate the letters in relation to their critical, biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Editor Donald Ulin discusses the relationship between Alderson.