Domestic Manners of the American

Informationen zum Autor Fanny Trollope Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Selected Further Reading Note on the Text DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS Appendix A: Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of the Americans Appendix B: Preface to the Fifth Edition of Domestic Manners of the Americans (1839) Appendix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

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• Authors: Pamela Neville-Singleton, Pamela Neville-Sington, Fanny Trollope, Frances M. Trollope, Trollope Fanny
• Assisted by: Pamela Neville-Singleton (Editor), Neville-Singleton Pamela (Editor), Pamela Neville-Sington (Editor), Pamela Neville-Singleton (Introduction), Pamela Neville-Sington (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.1997
• EAN: 9780140435610
• ISBN: 978-0-14-043561-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; USA, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, TRAVEL / United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Travel and holiday, C 1700 To C 1800