A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America

About this film

LibriVox recording of A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America by Rebecca Burlend. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. Complete title: "A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account of the various difficulties and ultimate success of an English family who emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, in the year 1831" The author and her husband, with five of their seven children, emigrated in 1831 from their farm in Yorkshire, England to Pike County, Illinois. In this small book, dictated in 1848 to a son who did not accompany the family, Rebecca Burlend describes their voyage and their early years in Illinois getting established as farmers on the western frontier. It is a warts-and-all account, as experienced by a middle-aged English mother with young children. - Summary by Ted Lienhart For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (97MB)

Directors & creators

Rebecca Burlend

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;frontier and pioneer life - illinois; women pioneers - illinois - biography; illinois - history - 1778-1865; frontier and pioneer life - personal narrative; immigration - personal narrative; american frontier - memoir; frontier women

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