Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances M. Trollope (2003, Trade Paperback)

Description: 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." Unabridged and newly typeset republication of the text originally published in 1832.

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Regional Cuisine: American

Book Title: Domestic Manners of the Americans

Item Length: 8.1in.

Item Height: 0.6in.

Item Width: 5.3in.

Author: Frances M. Trollope

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Sociology / General, United States / 19th Century, Customs & Traditions, United States / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2003

Genre: Travel, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science

Item Weight: 8.5 Oz

Number of Pages: 240 Pages