'It is merely crossing [...] the distance is quite imaginary' : textual cultures of settler emigration in nineteenth-century British literature and art

During the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of men, women and children moved away from Britain in search of better lives in the colonies of Canada, Australia and New Zealand and in North America. This demographic shift was also a textual enterprise. Emigrants themselves wrote about their exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaikh, Fariha Najwa
Other Authors: McDonagh, Josephine ; Pettitt, Clare Jane
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2014
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.762269