![]() ![]() From New Orleans, Memphis, Baltimore and Washington to Philadelphia, New York, Niagara and Albany, the book offers an engaging account of a nineteenth-century Englishwoman's impressions of America. ![]() Her criticisms of American culture are interspersed with descriptions of elections, cathedrals, markets, public balls, literature, and religion. She expresses her disgust at the copious handshaking, spitting-habits, tobacco chewing, expressions of self-righteousness, and hypocrisy of the Americans and vents her outrage at the existence of the slave trade in a country that boasted of equality. Trollope encountered a country that was completely different from what she had expected. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for. First published in 1832, it records her views on many aspects of American daily life, especially targeting the supposed lack of manners among Americans. ![]() ![]() Her Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), however, was a popular. Frances Trollope candidly describes her travel experiences in the United States during 1827-1831 in her two-volume book Domestic Manners of the Americans. Domestic manners of the Americans Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Frances Milton Trollope was born at Bristol, daughter of the Reverend William. Frances Trollopes Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieus satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm in 1832. ![]()
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