Domestic manners of the Americans

By Frances Milton Trollope

Subjects: Briten, Nonfiction, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Amerikabild, United States, Essays, Fiction, Authors, english, Social life and customs, United states, description and travel, United states, social life and customs, Description and travel, Social conditions, History, Classic Literature, Travel, United states, social conditions, to 1865, Personal narratives, United states, social conditions

Description: 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.