Domestic Manners of the Americans

by Fanny Trollope

Overview

"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."

-Goodreads (2020)

Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) is the most widely read work of Frances (Fanny) Milton Trollope. The best-selling travelogue engages the reader with commentary on American life ranging from dress, food, landscape, manners, and more. This work documents her American travels as well as life in burgeoning Cincinnati. At times regarded as controversial, Mark Twain thought differently, "...Mrs. Trollope spoke of this civilization in plain terms-plain and unsugared, but honest and without malice, and without hate." This insight into the early 1800s is a must-read for adventurers and historians alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646794317
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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Appendix A: Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of the Americans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