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Appendix A: Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of the Americans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