Writing Home

Writing Home
Author: Emma Alderson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1684481961

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).