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Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

  • Edited by: Donald Ingram Ulin
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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A new critical edition of Our Cousins in Ohio, showcasing the transatlantic collaboration between best-selling English author Mary Howitt and her emigrant sister in America

  • Offers a unique instance of collaborative transatlantic life writing
  • Includes meticulous editing for fidelity to the source text as well as textual variants
  • Helpful introduction and footnotes to provide critical, cultural and historical background
  • Carefully curated selection of primary materials for further contextualization of Howitt’s text by students and scholars
This edition offers the complete text of the first published edition of Mary Howitt’s Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), based on the letters sent by her immigrant sister in Cincinnati to her family in England. Supplementing the base text are a detailed record of all variants in the first London edition (1849), a critical introduction, explanatory notes, a selection of supplementary materials drawn from contemporary sources, a guide to the historical figures on which Howitt’s characters were based and a guide to further scholarship on Howitt. Subjects include the daily activities of the immigrant family, as well as significant historical material, such as slavery, abolition and the persistence of northern racism; the Shakers; Native American boarding schools; the Mexican-American war; and more.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Illustrations

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    Series Preface

    viii
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    Editor’s Preface

    ix
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    Abbreviations

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    Introduction. Narrating Life in a New Land: A Transatlantic Family Collaboration

    xiii
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    Bibliography

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    Figures

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    Our Cousins in Ohio (New York, 1849)

    xlix
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    CHAPTER I - XIII

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    Appendix 1: Emma Alderson’s letters

    174
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    Appendix 2: Selections from Mary Howitt’s other publications

    174
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    Appendix 3: Emigration promoted and discouraged

    177
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    Appendix 4: Race, slavery, freedom

    178
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    Appendix 5: Quakers, Native Americans and boarding schools

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    Appendix 6: Adventure narratives and Our Cousins in Ohio

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    Afterword

    184
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    Names Directory

    188
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    Guide to Howitt Scholarship

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    Textual Notes

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eBook published on:
October 31, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781399523585
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264
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399523585
eBook ISBN: 9781399523585
Keywords for this book
Transatlantic; Quaker; Immigrant; Women writers; life-writing; nineteenth century literature
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