Author: Anne Royall
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429001127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Printed privately in 1826, Anne Newport Royall's Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States caused quite a stir, as did most of her publications. Considering herself to be the guardian of democracy, Royall used her works to expose corruption and bad dealings wherever she went, with a boldness that was remarkable for an era obsessed with gentility and ""womanly virtue."" ""Sketches"" catalogs Royall's travels from Louisiana to Maine, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Springfield, Hartford, Worcester, Boston, and New Haven, noting each city's population, industry, physical description and modes of available transportation, as well as regional dialects, modes of dress and the character of the city's residents.
Royall's Sketches
Author: Anne Royall
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429001127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Printed privately in 1826, Anne Newport Royall's Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States caused quite a stir, as did most of her publications. Considering herself to be the guardian of democracy, Royall used her works to expose corruption and bad dealings wherever she went, with a boldness that was remarkable for an era obsessed with gentility and ""womanly virtue."" ""Sketches"" catalogs Royall's travels from Louisiana to Maine, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Springfield, Hartford, Worcester, Boston, and New Haven, noting each city's population, industry, physical description and modes of available transportation, as well as regional dialects, modes of dress and the character of the city's residents.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429001127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Printed privately in 1826, Anne Newport Royall's Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States caused quite a stir, as did most of her publications. Considering herself to be the guardian of democracy, Royall used her works to expose corruption and bad dealings wherever she went, with a boldness that was remarkable for an era obsessed with gentility and ""womanly virtue."" ""Sketches"" catalogs Royall's travels from Louisiana to Maine, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Springfield, Hartford, Worcester, Boston, and New Haven, noting each city's population, industry, physical description and modes of available transportation, as well as regional dialects, modes of dress and the character of the city's residents.
Mrs. Royall's Southern Tour
Author: Anne Newport Royall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monticello (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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Category : Monticello (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The United States of Appalachia
Author: Jeff Biggers
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 158243994X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Stereotypes of hillbillies and rednecks repeatedly appear in representations of the region, but few, if any, of its many heroes, visionaries, or innovators are ever referenced. Make no mistake, they are legion: from Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, to Sequoyah, a Cherokee mountaineer who invented the first syllabary in modern times, and international divas Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, as well as writers Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, and Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck, Appalachia has contributed mightily to American culture — and politics. Not only did eastern Tennessee boast the country's first antislavery newspaper, Appalachians also established the first District of Washington as a bold counterpoint to British rule. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers reminds us how Appalachians have defined and shaped the United States we know today.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 158243994X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Stereotypes of hillbillies and rednecks repeatedly appear in representations of the region, but few, if any, of its many heroes, visionaries, or innovators are ever referenced. Make no mistake, they are legion: from Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, to Sequoyah, a Cherokee mountaineer who invented the first syllabary in modern times, and international divas Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, as well as writers Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, and Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck, Appalachia has contributed mightily to American culture — and politics. Not only did eastern Tennessee boast the country's first antislavery newspaper, Appalachians also established the first District of Washington as a bold counterpoint to British rule. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers reminds us how Appalachians have defined and shaped the United States we know today.
Mrs. Royall's Pennsylvania, Or, Travels Continued in the United States
Author: Anne Newport Royall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Middle Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Mrs. Royall's Pennsylvania
Author: Anne Newport Royall
Publisher:
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Category : Middle Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Trials of a Scold
Author: Jeff Biggers
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466871598
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Trials of a Scold, by American Book Award-winning author Jeff Biggers, is a well-researched and passionate biography of Anne Royall, one of America's first female muckrakers, who was convicted as a "common scold" in 1829 in one of the most bizarre trials in the nation's history. Anne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear, and one of the nation's most daring, impassioned, and indomitable social critics. A servant in the house of the man she would later marry, Royall read constantly and pursued an education that few women at that time had access to. When fifteen years later she was left widowed and destitute after her husband's family declared their marriage invalid, she turned to her writing, and to her political interests. Travelling from Alabama to Washington DC to Pennsylvania, Royall was a fiercely dedicated journalist. Her tenacity earned her the first presidential interview ever granted to a woman, but she acquired enemies for her scathing denouncement of the increasingly blurry lines between church and state. Royall's pioneering role as a chronicler, publisher, muckraker, and social commentator brought to light the timeless issues that still define the great American experience: religion and politics.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466871598
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Trials of a Scold, by American Book Award-winning author Jeff Biggers, is a well-researched and passionate biography of Anne Royall, one of America's first female muckrakers, who was convicted as a "common scold" in 1829 in one of the most bizarre trials in the nation's history. Anne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear, and one of the nation's most daring, impassioned, and indomitable social critics. A servant in the house of the man she would later marry, Royall read constantly and pursued an education that few women at that time had access to. When fifteen years later she was left widowed and destitute after her husband's family declared their marriage invalid, she turned to her writing, and to her political interests. Travelling from Alabama to Washington DC to Pennsylvania, Royall was a fiercely dedicated journalist. Her tenacity earned her the first presidential interview ever granted to a woman, but she acquired enemies for her scathing denouncement of the increasingly blurry lines between church and state. Royall's pioneering role as a chronicler, publisher, muckraker, and social commentator brought to light the timeless issues that still define the great American experience: religion and politics.
A Literary History of Alabama
Author: Benjamin Buford Williams
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838620540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A biographical, bibliographical, generic, critical, and chronological survey of nineteenth-century Alabama authors. Presents a vivid picture of life in the South in 19th-century America.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838620540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A biographical, bibliographical, generic, critical, and chronological survey of nineteenth-century Alabama authors. Presents a vivid picture of life in the South in 19th-century America.
Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States
Author: Anne Newport Royall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description