Domestic Manners of the Americans Paperback by Fanny Trollope

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics (1997-11-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 416 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780140435610
• Item Weight: 283.5 grams
• Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.91 cm

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.

About the Author

PAMELA NEVILLE-SINGTON lives in West London. She is a member of the Trollope Society, and Viking publish her biography, Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman.