The Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071XSVMDD |
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| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. 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.. Travelling from Alabama to Washington DC to Pennsylvania, Royall was a fiercely dedicated journalist. 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. 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
Challenging, intrepid, and unconventional, she played an important part in American cultural history."--Roxana Robinson, author of four New York Times Notable Books of the Year, including Georgia O'Keefe: A Life"Trials of a Scold is a fascinating account of a woman who defied nineteenth-century societal constraints to attain national prominence and power as a muckraking journalist. But there is much more to her life and to her story, and in Jeff Biggers’ capable hands she is fully realized. If you're an American, it is almost a patriotic duty to read it."Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love on Reckoning at Eagle Creek"Perhaps no issue captures better what it means to be American than the contentious legislative debate around who can become American. That she managed to write with a wicked sense of
Biggers is a regulator contributor to Al Jazeera America, HuffingtonPost, and Salon. He is the author of several works of memoir and history, including Reckoning at Eagle Creek, which was the recipient of the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting. His award-winning stories have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and on National Public Radio. . JEFF BIGGERS is an American