Domestic Manners of the Americans

Author/Contributor(s):	Trollope, Fanny; Neville-Singleton, Pamela; Neville-Singleton, Pamela
Publisher:	Penguin Classics
Date:	11/1/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.