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Trollope, Frances
Trollope, Frances (1780–1863), English author, resided in the U.S. (1827–30), during which time her husband operated a fancy‐goods bazaar in Cincinnati. The business failed, but Mrs. Trollope's book Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) attained notoriety. Although she admitted that the material status of Americans was superior to that of Europeans, she remarked on the tendency of democracy to lower the level of intellectual attainment, attacked slavery, was offended by revivals, disliked the affected delicacy of American women, and criticized the general boastfulness and sharp practices in business. The work caused a sensation and prompted many replies both in magazines and in books. Mrs. Trollope wrote other travel books and novels, of which four deal with America: The Refugee in America (1832); Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1836), attacking black slavery; The Barnabys in America (1843); and The Old World and the New (1849). Her sons, the novelist Anthony Trollope (1815–82) and Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810–92), both wrote studies of American institutions. The several trips that Anthony made to America resulted in North America (1862) and some letters in the Liverpool Weekly Mercury (1875), of which one was reprinted as A Letter from Anthony Trollope Describing a Visit to California (1946).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Trollope, Frances." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Trollope, Frances." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-TrollopeFrances.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Trollope, Frances." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-TrollopeFrances.html |
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Trollope, Frances
Trollope, Frances (1780–1863), mother of A. Trollope. When her family was reduced to poverty she supported them by her writing. After the failure of their farm at Harrow (later to appear in her son Anthony's Orley Farm), she went to America and later published her caustic Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832). She lived for the next few years on the Continent and produced Paris and the Parisians (1835); Vienna and the Austrians (1838); and A Visit to Italy (1842). Meanwhile she was writing a long sequence of popular (though little remembered) novels.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Trollope, Frances." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Trollope, Frances." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-TrollopeFrances.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Trollope, Frances." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-TrollopeFrances.html |
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