The Journal of Ann McMath

An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening. In 1851, fourteen-year-old orphan Ann McMath was sent to live with her uncle and his family in their parsonage in Horseheads, New York. Lonely and full of self doubt, anxious to establish female friendships in a new place, and questing for intellectual and moral perfection, she began keeping journal when she was seventeen and wrote in it regularly for the next