Domestic Manners of the Americans Paperback - 1997
by Trollope, Fanny
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Description
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Details
- Title Domestic Manners of the Americans
- Author Trollope, Fanny
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, NY
- Date November 1, 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP63587004
- ISBN 9780140435610 / 0140435611
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.16 x 0.97 in (19.76 x 13.11 x 2.46 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98148351
- Dewey Decimal Code 973
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Summary
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist. She left behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But her hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves were soon dashed, and she and her children were forced to live by their wits in Cincinnati, then a booming frontier town on the Ohio River. What followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures that left them destitute.
Nevertheless, on her return to England, Fanny turned her misfortunes into a remarkable book. Domestic Manners was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. A masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel-writing, it is also a timeless satire on a society torn between high ideals and human frailties. It remains as perceptive and funny today as it was when it was first published.
