"I am convinced that there is no writer who has so well and so accurately (I need not add entertainingly) described America." —Charles Dickens
I never beheld a scene so utterly desolate as this entrance of the Mississippi. Had Dante seen it, he might have drawn images of another Bolgia from its horrors.
Plagued by mounting debts and an impossible husband, Fanny Trollope left England for America in 1827 hoping to set her life to rights in America. What followed was nothing but misadventure which she turned into an unforgettable book. Caustic, intrepid, and spirited, her account of her travels became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.

Domestic Manners of the Americans (Vintage Classics)

History

TROLLOPE, Fanny

Americas

Vintage Classics

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. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to England Fanny turned her misfortunes into a remarkable book. A masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel-writing, Domestic Manners of the Americans is a vivid and hugely witty satirical account of a nation and was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Domestic Manners of the Americans (Penguin Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

NEVILLE-SINGTON, Pamela

Arts & Literature

Penguin Classics

The author describes her travels in America during the 1830s and offers her opinions on democracy and daily life in the United States

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Trollope, Frances M

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The Widow Barnaby (Pocket Classics)

Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.

Spine creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Paris and the Parisians

Travel

Europe

Alan Sutton/Hippocrene Books

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 both sides of the Atlantic, as Frances Trollope had a caustic view of the Americans and found America strongly lacking in manners and learning. She was appalled by America's egalitarian middle-class and by the influence of evangelicalism that was emerging during the Second Great Awakening. Trollope was also harshly critical of slavery of African Americans in the United States, and by the popularity of tobacco chewing, and the consequent spitting, even on carpets.

Domestic Manners of the Americans (Esprios Classics)

Blurb

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Domestic Manners Of The Americans

United States

A characterful personal survey of American society by Anthony Trollope's mother

Echo Library

Community & Culture

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