Domestic Manners of the Americans

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 11/01/1997
ISBN: 9780140435610
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.16w x 0.97d