Domestic manners of the Americans / Fanny Trollope ; edited with an introduction and notes by Pamela Neville-Sington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863.

Contributor:

Neville-Sington, Pamela.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlii, 364 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

Summary:

The publication of Domestic Manners of the Americans in 1832 caused a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. Part satire, part masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel writing, this perceptive and humorous book grew from Trollope's ill-fated attempt to escape growing debts and the oppressively black moods of her husband. When she left England in 1827 with three of her children and a young French artist, her destination was a utopian community in Tennessee, established to prepare slaves for eventual emancipation. Horrified by the primitive conditions she discovered there, Trollope quickly fled with her children to the booming frontier town of Cincinnati. After two miserable years she retreated to England, where she launched her remarkably successful literary career with this timeless and biting commentary on a society torn between high ideals and human frailties.

Notes:

Originally published: London, 1832. With new introd.

Includes bibliographical references (page xlii-[xliii]).

ISBN:

0140435611

9780140435610

OCLC:

39148078

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