Domestic Manners of the Americans
by Fanny Trollope, Pamela Neville-Singleton (Introduction by, Notes by)
ISBN-10: 0140435611
ISBN-13: 9780140435610
$18.00
Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Nov 1, 1997
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.78x5.16x0.97 Inches
Weight
0.67 Pounds
About the Book
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.