Domestic Manners of the Americans by Mrs. Trollope. Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. in London. 2 Volumes. 1832.
From the title page:
"On me dit que pourvu que je ne parle ni de l'autorité, ni du culte, ni de la politique, ni de la morale, ni des gens en place, ni de l'opéra, ni des autres spectacles, ni de personne qui tienne à quelque chose, je puis tout imprimer librement.” - MARIAGE DE FIGARO.
Translated: "I am told that as long as I do not speak of authority, or worship, or politics, or morality, or people in power, or opera, or other shows, or anyone who cares about anything, I can print everything freely."
In good condition inside and out. Includes 24 lithograph plates by French painter and book illustrator Auguste Hervieu.
"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."
Source: Penguin Classics (Penguin.co.uk)
Wall Street Journal also wrote an excellent review of the book highlighting the author's "mordant humor and exuberant prose.
"The book was both highly controversial and highly successful, selling "like wildfire". . . . American author Mark Twain was amused and impressed by Trollope's observations of the Antebellum frontier America he grew up in: 'Mrs Trollope was so handsomely cursed and reviled by this nation [for] telling the truth...she was painting a state of things which did not change at once...I remember it.'"
Source: Wikipedia
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