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- Title
have never been at rest since: The Ballad of Daniel Nash and Charlotte Gregory.
- Authors
Wolff, Holly Nash
- Abstract
This essay treats the linguistic and cultural context of the first five out of a series of eleven letters written cjhk-ie by the author's great-grandfather, Daniel Nash, to the woman he hoped to marry. It addresses the cultural background of the writer and provides the full text of these five letters with a commentary that recovers and explains the archetypal story contained in them. It is drawn from an illustrated book-length study of the complete letter series, "Parting Ways: Memory and Migration, the Story of Two Nineteenth-Century English Emigrants to America," which seeks to reconstruct the lives and world view of an ordinary pair who were emblematic of a remarkable time, place, and people, and a nowvanished culture. Both the essay and the study from which it is drawn employ a method that combines social history, local and family tradition, and what the historian Robert Zaller has perceptively called ethnoarcheology.
- Subjects
SOUTH East England; NASH, Daniel; GREGORY, Charlotte; ENGLISH immigrants' writings; LETTER writing; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2016, Vol 79, Issue 3, p479
- ISSN
0018-7895
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/hlq.2016.0025