NF Publisher suggestions?

[DRW]

From my own perspective I found this to be "different":

"The wife's story - she is forced to move a few times and ends up in rural Vermont - and her extended family which includes soldiers and deserters, is quite interesting."

I'd think about working that in if it makes sense based on the content of the letters.

Yes, the home front material from the wife's letters is just as interesting than the soldier/husband's letters. I'm emphasizing this in the book proposal. The wife is 19 when the letters start and lives among an extended family of many sisters and brothers-in-law. It's great insight into an artisan/working-class family living in an early suburb on the periphery of NYC from the perceptive of a young woman. The letters show the wife's solid common-school education. I still can't figure out how the husband who is 21 when the letters start, and immigrated from Germany as a teen, learned to write English so fluently.

 

[Belfoured]

Yes, the home front material from the wife's letters is just as interesting than the soldier/husband's letters. I'm emphasizing this in the book proposal. The wife is 19 when the letters start and lives among an extended family of many sisters and brothers-in-law. It's great insight into an artisan/working-class family living in an early suburb on the periphery of NYC from the perceptive of a young woman. The letters show the wife's solid common-school education. I still can't figure out how the husband who is 21 when the letters start, and immigrated from Germany as a teen, learned to write English so fluently.

Obviously, I think that's a good idea. You need to get through the door first to have a chance at ending up in the room ...

 

[gary]

Ghost written? I read about soldiers who had a comrade write letters for them.

 

[Library Lady]

Was English commonly taught in German schools at that time? From what I've been told, my ancestors who came over from Scandinavia shortly after the Civil War were fluent English speakers when they arrived because they had been taught the language in school.

 

[gary]

Member Ted Savas is starting a new substack about writing:

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