When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning...
The mother of acclaimed British novelist Anthony Trollope, Frances Trollope wrote a number of anti-slavery and anti-Catholic novels in the early and mid-19th century. Her work influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe, who went on to write the seminal Uncle Tom's Cabin .
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's...
'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner'
In Domestic Manners of the Americans Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing...
Frances Trollope, mother of the great Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, wrote more than 40 books in her lifetime, including provocative, landmark novels dealing with important social issues. Today, however, she's best known for her witty, entertaining, and controversial account...
Upon its publication in 1832, Domestic Manners of the Ameri-cans instantly caused a storm of controversy. A sometimes scathing, often witty, beautifully written account of the foibles and failings of America as Fanny Trollope saw it, Domestic Manners was, however, roundly applauded...
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Domestic Manners of the Americans is a 2-volume 1832 travel book by Frances Milton Trollope, which follows her travels through America and her residence in Cincinnati, at the time still a frontier town. The text now resides in the public domain. The book created a sensation on...
Frances Trollope candidly describes her travel experiences in the United States during 1827-1831 in her two-volume book Domestic Manners of the Americans. First published in 1832, it records her views on many aspects of American daily life, especially targeting the supposed lack...
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Richly informative on American manners and morals in the early ninteenth century, this famous travel account also reveals much about the contrast between British and American culture.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...
Dans ce livre, Mistress Trollope pr sente ses observations sur les moeurs domestiques des Am ricains du XIXe si cle. Son livre est une critique de l'individualisme am ricain et une r flexion sur les diff rences culturelles entre l'Am rique et l'Europe. This work has...
""The Domestic Manners of the Americans: Or Characteristic Sketches of the People of the United States by Recent Travelers"" is a book that provides a detailed and insightful account of American society and culture during the early 19th century. The book is a collection of observations...
Dans ce livre, Mistress Trollope pr sente ses observations sur les moeurs domestiques des Am ricains du XIXe si cle. Son livre est une critique de l'individualisme am ricain et une r flexion sur les diff rences culturelles entre l'Am rique et l'Europe. This work has...
Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieu's satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm in 1832. An unusual combination of realism, visual satire, and novelistic detail, Domestic Mannersrecounts Trollope's three years...