The Trials of a Scold
The Trials of a Scold

Author: Jeff Biggers

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1466871598

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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.

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Charles B. Penrose

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9781331200994

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Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 C. having sold a tract of land to which K. had a claim, executed a single hill to K. for a certain sum in discharge of his claim to the land, to be paid out of the purchase-money. And the parties agreed that each should be present when the purchase-money should be paid, and receive his own part. K. gave notice to the purchaser not to pay his money to 0. but to himself; that he was willing to take him (the purchaser) for it. The purchaser afterwards failed, and was unable to pay the money. In an action by K. against 0. on the single bill, it was held that he was not entitled to recover. Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an action of debt upon a bond, in which Michael Campbell and Charles Campbell, executors of Charles Campbell, deceased, were plaintiffs, and George Knox was defendant. The facts of the case appear so fully in the opinion of his honor, who delivered that of the court, that they need not be again stated. White and Stannard, for plaintiffs in error. Fetterman, for defendant in error. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.