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Domestic Manners of the Americans
by Frances Trollope
Frances Trollope
Domestic Manners of the Americans
by Frances Trollope
Frances Trollope
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Frances Trollope, mother of the great Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, wrote more than 40 books in her lifetime, including provocative, landmark novels dealing with important social issues. Today, however, she's best known for her witty, entertaining, and controversial account of American life and culture -- Domestic Manners of the Americans. First published in 1832, this travel classic presents a lively portrait of early-nineteenth-century America as observed by a woman of rare intelligence and keen perception. Mrs. Trollope left no stone unturned, commenting on American dress, food, speech, politics, manners, customs, the landscape, architecture, and more -- often critically, occasionally admiringly, but always with considerable insight and fine literary flair. Of her, Mark Twain observed: "Of all the tourists I like Dame Trollope best, she found a 'civilization' here which you, reader, could not have endured; and which you would not have regarded as a civilization at all. Mrs. Trollope spoke of this civilization in plain terms -- plain and unsugared, but honest and without malice, and without hate." An immediate best-seller on its first publication, the book remains one of the most popular of all American travel accounts.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781776580132 |
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Publisher: | The Floating Press |
Publication date: | 07/01/2014 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 516 KB |
About the Author
Frances Trollope (1780-1863) wrote her first book, Domestic Manners, at the age of 53 and went on to write over forty more after its phenomenal success. She travelled to America to assist in the founding of a utopian community in the face of financial ruin in England, and after several failed business ventures began to gather material for her travel book. She supported six children after the death of her husband, one of whom, Anthony Trollope, followed her into writing.
Elsie B. Michie is Professor of English at Louisiana State University. Her books include Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer (1993) and The Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James (2011). She has edited a Frances Trollope novel, The Lottery of Marriage (2011), complied the Oxford On-Line Bibliography for Frances Trollope, and published essays on Trollope in Partial Answers and Women's Writing.
Elsie B. Michie is Professor of English at Louisiana State University. Her books include Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer (1993) and The Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James (2011). She has edited a Frances Trollope novel, The Lottery of Marriage (2011), complied the Oxford On-Line Bibliography for Frances Trollope, and published essays on Trollope in Partial Answers and Women's Writing.
Table of Contents
Chapter I.1 |
Entrance of the Mississippi |
Balize |
Chapter II.4 |
New Orleans |
Society |
Creoles and Quadroons |
Voyage up the Mississippi |
Chapter III.10 |
Company on board the Steam-boat |
Scenery of the Mississippi |
Crocodiles |
Arrival at Memphis |
Nashoba |
Chapter IV.19 |
Departure from Memphis |
Ohio River |
Louisville |
Cincinnati |
Chapter V.26 |
Cincinnati |
Forest Farm |
Mr. Bullock |
Chapter VI.32 |
Servants |
Society |
Evening Parties |
Chapter VII.37 |
Market |
Museum |
Picture Gallery |
Academy of Fine Arts |
Drawing School |
Phrenological Society |
Miss Wright's Lecture |
Chapter VIII.43 |
Absence of public and private Amusement |
Churches and Chapels |
Influence of the Clergy |
A Revival |
Chapter IX.49 |
Schools |
Climate |
Water Melons |
Fourth of July |
Storms |
Pigs |
Moving Houses |
Mr. Flint |
Literature |
Chapter X.57 |
Removal to the Country |
Walk in the Forest |
Equality |
Chapter XI.64 |
Religion |
Chapter XII.70 |
Peasantry, compared to that of England |
Early Marriages |
Charity |
Independence and Equality |
Cottage Prayer-meeting |
Chapter XIII.78 |
Theatre |
Fine Arts |
Delicacy |
Shaking Quakers |
Big-Bone Lick |
Visit of the President |
Chapter XIV.86 |
American Spring |
Controversy between Messrs. Owen and Campbell |
Public Ball |
Separation of the Sexes |
American freedom |
Execution |
Chapter XV.98 |
Camp-Meeting |
Chapter XVI.104 |
Danger of rural Excursions |
Sickness |
Chapter XVII.108 |
Departure from Cincinnati |
Society on board the Steam-boat |
Arrival at Wheeling |
Bel Esprit |
Chapter XVIII.114 |
Departure for the Mountains in the Stage |
Scenery of the Alleghany |
Haggerstown |
Chapter XIX.122 |
Baltimore |
Catholic Cathedral |
St. Mary's College |
Sermons |
Infant School |
Chapter XX.129 |
Voyage to Washington |
Capitol |
City of Washington |
Congress |
Indians |
Funeral of a Member of Congress |
Chapter XXI.142 |
Stonington |
Great Falls of the Potomac |
Chapter XXII.145 |
Small Landed Proprietors |
Slavery |
Chapter XXIII.153 |
Fruits and Flowers of Maryland and Virginia |
Copper-head Snake |
Insects |
Elections |
Chapter XXIV.158 |
Journey to Philadelphia |
Chesapeak and Delaware Canal |
City of Philadelphia |
Miss Wright's Lecture |
Chapter XXV.162 |
Washington Square |
American Beauty |
Gallery of Fine Arts |
Antiques |
Theatres |
Museum |
Chapter XXVI.168 |
Quakers |
Presbyterians |
Itinerant Methodist Preacher |
Market |
Influence of Females in Society |
Chapter XXVII.177 |
Return to Stonington |
Thunder-storm |
Emigrants |
Illness |
Alexandria |
Chapter XXVIII.183 |
American Cooking |
Evening Parties |
Dress |
Sleighing |
Money-getting Habits |
Tax-Gatherer's Notice |
Indian Summer |
Anecdote of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar |
Chapter XXIX.192 |
Literature |
Extracts |
Fine Arts |
Education |
Chapter XXX.205 |
Journey to New York |
Delaware River |
Stage-coach |
City of New York |
Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies |
Theatres |
Public Garden |
Churches |
Morris Canal |
Fashions |
Carriages |
Chapter XXXI.219 |
Reception of Captain Basil Hall's Book in the United States |
Chapter XXXII.227 |
Journey to Niagara |
Hudson |
West Point |
Hyde Park |
Albany |
Yankees |
Trenton Falls |
Rochester |
Genesee Falls |
Lockport |
Chapter XXXIII.236 |
Niagara |
Arrival at Forsythes |
First sight of the Falls |
Goat Island |
The Rapids |
Buffalo |
Lake Erie |
Canandaigna |
Stage-coach Adventures |
Chapter XXXIV.249 |
Return to New York |
Conclusion |
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