The Yankee Yorkshireman: Migration Lived and Imagined

by Mary H. Blewett

Mary H. Blewett offers a textual and contextual appraisal of the writings of Yorkshire-born Hedley Smith (1909-94). Smith's depiction of the fictional mill village of Briardale, Rhode Island, captures an early twentieth-century labor diaspora peopled with textile workers. Enraged and embittered at the transformatory experience of his own emigration, Smith used fiction to explore Yorkshire immigrants' culture and stubborn refusal to assimilate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076133
• ISBN13: 9780252076138
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"