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Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts

Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

Edited by Donald Ingram Ulin

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Published 31 March 2027

About this book

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.
Table of contents

List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Editor's Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction: Narrating Life in a New Land: A Transatlantic Family Collaboration
Bibliography
Figures
Our Cousins in Ohio (New York, 1849)
Summary of Online Appendices
Appendix 1: Emma Alderson’s Letters
Appendix 2: Selections from Mary Howitt's Other Publications
Appendix 3: Emigration Promoted and Discouraged
Appendix 4: Race, Slavery, Freedom
Appendix 5: Quakers, Native Americans and Boarding Schools
Appendix 6: Adventure Narratives and Our Cousins in Ohio

Afterword
Names Directory
Guide to Howitt Scholarship
Textual Notes

About the author

Donald Ingram Ulin

Donald Ingram Ulin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh in Bradford, Pennsylvania. He has edited Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier, the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson (2022). He has also published in Victorian Studies, Victorians Institute Journal, Cultural Critique, Victorian Poetry, the European Journal of American Studies, the European Romantic Review and elsewhere, mostly on changing representations of the English countryside.

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