An Uncommon Scold Treasure-Talk Describes Life of Anne Royall

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and Ellen Riek, who took the time to read various chapters of my project, and to Anne-Marie Thweatt for singing me off to my defense with an original song! My deepest gratitude goes to Barbara T. Ryan, a brilliant Americanist whose early encouragement inspired me to persevere whenever I doubted myself. I reach back in time to thank Kathryn Kish Sklar, Norma Basch, Penelope Johnson, and Clarice Feinman, team teachers of my last class at New York University in 1980, on the history of American women. I've never forgotten their intelligence and passion, nor that of Marlene Springer, who has no idea of the lifelong impact that her junior-level nineteenth-century American literature course at the University of Missouri had on this undergraduate in 1973.

This article considers the letters of Anne Newport Royall, first female American journalist, and her sojourn in Moulton, Alabama in the early 1820s. Royall encountered a new denomination, the Cumberland Presbyterians, and a new word, "Covaulting." She documented her opinion of both, as she experienced them in outdoor revivals.

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