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...