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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.

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Appendix A: Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of the Americans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

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 29/05/1997
      ISBN13: 9780140435610, 978-0140435610
      ISBN10: 0140435611
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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      Appendix A: Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of the Americans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

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