Frances Milton Trollope - Domestic Manners of the Americans

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.

• | Author: Frances Milton Trollope
• | Publisher: Scribe Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 17, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 172 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1785435183
• | ISBN-13: 9781785435188