Hold Dear, As Always - Jette, a German Immigrant Life in Letters

Informationen zum Autor Adolf E. Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has written extensively on the immigrant experience in America and on nineteenth-century German literature. Carla Schulz-Geisberg is a private scholar in Muenster-Nienberge, West Germany, who has spent many years studying and documenting the American letters of the Geisberg family. Klappentext Henriette (Jette) Geisberg Bruns was twenty-three when she arrived in 1836 at the isolated Westphalia Settlement in central Missouri. This rare collection of personal family letters! combined with an autobiographical sketch Jette wrote after the Civil War! illuminates the experience of one immigrant woman in a land that was always foreign to her. Zusammenfassung Henriette (Jette) Geisberg Bruns was twenty-three when she arrived in 1836 at the isolated Westphalia Settlement in central Missouri. This rare collection of personal family letters! combined with an autobiographical sketch Jette wrote after the Civil War! illuminates the experience of one immigrant woman in a land that was always foreign to her.

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• Authors: Adolf E Schulz-Geisberg Schroeder, Adolf E. (EDT)/ Schulz-Geisberg Schroeder, Adolf E. Schulz-Geisbe Schroeder, Adolf Schulz-Geisbe Schroeder
• Assisted by: Adolf Schroeder (Editor), Adolf E Schroeder (Editor), Adolf E. Schroeder (Editor), Carla Schulz-Geisbe (Editor), Carla Schulz-Geisberg (Editor), Adolf E. Schroeder (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9780826219282
• ISBN: 978-0-8262-1928-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, USA Mittlerer Westen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, History - General History, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)