Nothing to Write Home About
Nothing to Write Home About Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. She…
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Nothing to Write Home About
Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. She shows that Britons used the post to navigate family separations and understand British Columbia as an uncontested settler home. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into epistolary topics including familial intimacy and conflict, everyday concerns such as boredom and food, and what correspondents chose not to write about.
These letters and their writers thus played a critical role in laying the foundations of a powerful settler order that continues to structure the province