Royall's Sketches: Of History, Life, and Manners in the United StatesApplewood Books, 30. 1. 2003 - Počet stran: 392 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 (she later became a friend of John Quincy Adams), 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 'Äúwomanly virtue'Äù. 'ÄúSketches'Äù 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. |
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... ༥ OF HISTORY , LIFE , AND MANNERS , IN THE UNITED STATES . BY A TRAVELLER . Anne Royale NEW - HAVEN : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR . ********** 1826 . LIBRARY CITY CONGRESS 309 TO THE PUBLIC . 17 THE author of these. HOLD NEW YORK HE OF ...
... ༥ OF HISTORY , LIFE , AND MANNERS , IN THE UNITED STATES . BY A TRAVELLER . Anne Royale NEW - HAVEN : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR . ********** 1826 . LIBRARY CITY CONGRESS 309 TO THE PUBLIC . 17 THE author of these. HOLD NEW YORK HE OF ...
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... New- York : also , that the matter of the book does not exactly come up to the prospectus , as regards the western states , for this reason , -when the proposals for this , as well as two other works , were published , the author was ...
... New- York : also , that the matter of the book does not exactly come up to the prospectus , as regards the western states , for this reason , -when the proposals for this , as well as two other works , were published , the author was ...
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... new fellow traveller was by far the best com- pany we had had yet ; he was all frolic , fun , life and spirits , that never flagged . He was different from our Irishman in this , he never drank a drop of ... New - York , to 24 JOURNEY FROM.
... new fellow traveller was by far the best com- pany we had had yet ; he was all frolic , fun , life and spirits , that never flagged . He was different from our Irishman in this , he never drank a drop of ... New - York , to 24 JOURNEY FROM.
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... New - York , to purchase goods . Demopolis is a town in Alabama , in that part of it that was ceded conditionally to the French . I was glad to hear this ; I had heard much of those emigrants , and now I had an opportunity ( so far as I ...
... New - York , to purchase goods . Demopolis is a town in Alabama , in that part of it that was ceded conditionally to the French . I was glad to hear this ; I had heard much of those emigrants , and now I had an opportunity ( so far as I ...
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... York river . Eleven miles from the mouth of York river , stands Yorktown , famous in American his- tory for the ... New- York has gained upon her in point of numbers , since 1790 , 714,936 . Virginia , one of the first states in the ...
... York river . Eleven miles from the mouth of York river , stands Yorktown , famous in American his- tory for the ... New- York has gained upon her in point of numbers , since 1790 , 714,936 . Virginia , one of the first states in the ...
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