![]() ![]() “You will see them with one hand,” she later writes of her Cincinnati neighbours, “hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves.” Above all she despised “the total and universal want of manners”, the manifestation of which ranged from eating foot-long slices of watermelon in public to tossing pigs’ tails into flowerbeds and vomiting in the theatre pit. Her Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), however, was a popular. Voyaging through the slave state of Kentucky, Fanny notes with unease that all men are not as equal as had first appeared. Frances Milton Trollope was born at Bristol, daughter of the Reverend William. ![]() What an inspiration is Fanny! She has the essential reporter’s curiosity, insisting on being lowered into Ohioan coal mines or hoisted onto Pennsylvanian factory platforms.Ī radical by temperament rather than ideology, she is determined to uncover the truth about the fabled American democracy. ![]() An enchanting blend of topographical description, social commentary and robust rebuke, the book fizzes with the energy, fun and righteous indignation of a dumpy, middle-aged Bristolian called Fanny Trollope. Trollope left no stone unturned, commenting on American dress, food, speech, politics, manners, customs, the landscape, architecture, and more - often critically but always with considerable insight and literary flair. Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) is a traveller’s account of the newborn republic between the war of independence and the civil war. Frances Milton Trollope (1779 1863) was an English novelist and writer whose first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), caused an international. Published in 1832, the book presents a lively portrait of early 19th-century America as observed by a woman of rare intelligence and keen perception. ![]()
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