The Trials Of A Scold: The Incredible True Story Of Writer Anne Royall
by Jeff Biggers /
2017 / English / EPUB
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"A role model for those of us living in the age of
Trump"
"A role model for those of us living in the age of
Trump"―
―Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Anne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear who
defied 19th century skeptics as a prolific literary force,
satirist and social critic.
Anne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear who
defied 19th century skeptics as a prolific literary force,
satirist and social critic.
Drawing from Royall's largely overlooked literary works,
Drawing from Royall's largely overlooked literary works,Trials of a Scold
Trials of a Scold is a groundbreaking and passionate
biography of Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, who
was convicted as a "common scold" in 1829 in one of the most
bizarre trials in the nation's history.
is a groundbreaking and passionate
biography of Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, who
was convicted as a "common scold" in 1829 in one of the most
bizarre trials in the nation's history.
Publishing her first book in 1826 at the age of 57, Royall
reinvented herself as a “women politico” a generation before the
Women's Suffrage Movemen. She was a pioneering travel writer and
satirist who broke ground on the wagon trails a generation before
Mark Twain, and an investigative journalist who took on bankers
and prison conditions a half century before muckrakers Ida
Tarbell and Nellie Bly. She was the author of 10 original books,
and publisher of a newspaper in Washington, DC for 25 years until
the age of 85.
Publishing her first book in 1826 at the age of 57, Royall
reinvented herself as a “women politico” a generation before the
Women's Suffrage Movemen. She was a pioneering travel writer and
satirist who broke ground on the wagon trails a generation before
Mark Twain, and an investigative journalist who took on bankers
and prison conditions a half century before muckrakers Ida
Tarbell and Nellie Bly. She was the author of 10 original books,
and publisher of a newspaper in Washington, DC for 25 years until
the age of 85.
One of the most famous, sharp-witted and controversial women of
her times, Royall was raised in the backwoods of the South but
educated herself in one of the great libraries in the region. She
openly cohabitated with her husband prior to their wedding, but
was then left widowed and destitute after her husband’s family
declared their marriage invalid. Turning to writing, Royall
acquired fame and then enemies for her scathing and hilarious
denouncements of corruption, incompetence and the blurry lines
between church and state.
One of the most famous, sharp-witted and controversial women of
her times, Royall was raised in the backwoods of the South but
educated herself in one of the great libraries in the region. She
openly cohabitated with her husband prior to their wedding, but
was then left widowed and destitute after her husband’s family
declared their marriage invalid. Turning to writing, Royall
acquired fame and then enemies for her scathing and hilarious
denouncements of corruption, incompetence and the blurry lines
between church and state.