# Domestic Manners of the Americans

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- Book: [Domestic Manners of the Americans](https://www.bookquiver.com/frances-trollope/domestic-manners-of-the-americans) ([Domestic Manners of the Americans.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/frances-trollope/domestic-manners-of-the-americans.md))
- Authors: [Fanny Trollope](https://www.bookquiver.com/frances-trollope)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-561-0
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2006-11-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.