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Description of  Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson

Writing 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. Introductions and notes situate the letters in relation to their critical, biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Editor Donald Ulin discusses the relationship between Aldersons letters and her sister Mary Howitts Read more