Fanny Trollope

Domestic Manners of the Americans (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141960166
• Artikelnr.: 38148893

Autorenporträt

FANNY TROLLOPE (1779-1863) was native of England, a world traveler known as witty and intelligent, and mother to acclaimed author Anthony Trollope. An insightful trailblazer among writers of her time, Trollope penned over 100 volumes and wrote the first anti-slavery novel, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1836) which influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and published the first British industrialist novel: Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy (1840).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Selected Further Reading
Note on the Text
DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS
Appendix A: Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of
the Americans
Appendix B: Preface to the Fifth Edition of Domestic Manners of the
Americans (1839)
Appendix C: 'A Fragment' Appended to the Fifth Edition
Notes