Fanny Trollope (1780–1863)
Autore di Domestic Manners of the Americans
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Frances Trollope, the mother of the prolific mid-Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, was an accomplished novelist and travel writer in her own right. In all, she was the author of 35 novels, many of them quite popular. Born the second daughter of a vicar, she was raised in the town of Bristol. In mostra altro 1809 she married Thomas Trollope, a promising young barrister. Although Thomas had a profitable legal practice, a number of pecuniary crises strained the Trollopes financially. In 1827, partly in an attempt to escape her husband's sullenness over their money matters and partly to help rebuild the family's fortune, she took three of her six children to the United States, where she remained until 1830. There (in Cincinnati) she set up a retail store that was to provide this region of provincial America with European culture. When the scheme failed, Trollope turned to writing as a means of self-preservation. The result was Domestic Manners of the Americans, which was immensely popular, and The Refugee in America, her first novel, both published in 1832. Soon after she established a professional relationship with the publisher Richard Bentley, who went far to publicize her work. The finances of the family did not improve, however, and in 1835, finally bankrupt, the Trollopes moved to Belgium, where Thomas died. Frances's agreement with Bentley, who paid her $7600 per novel, and her remarkable output of two novels per year restored the family fortunes. During her life Trollope's fiction was considered rough and inelegant, and she was not a favorite of the critics. In recent years her work has begun to attract considerable attention for its insightful political and social analysis and its strong stand on issues of the day. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Do not confuse or combine her with her daughter-in-law Frances Eleanor Trollope, née Ternan (1835-1913), also a novelist.
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Opere di Fanny Trollope
Vienna and the Austrians; with some account of a journey through Swabia, Bavaria, the Tyrol, and the Salzbourg (1837) 3 copie
A Visit to Italy 3 copie
The Old World and the New 2 copie
Delphi Collected Works of Frances Trollope (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Seven Book 16) (2016) 2 copie
A Visit to Italy, Volume II — Autore — 1 copia
The Robertses on Their Travels 1 copia
A Romance of Vienna 1 copia
The lottery of marriage. A novel 1 copia
A Summer in Brittany — A cura di — 1 copia
The life and adventures of a clever woman, illustrated with occasional extracts from her diary 1 copia
Uncle Walter 1 copia
Town and Country 1 copia
The Attractive Man 1 copia
Opere correlate
Nikolaus und Engelshaar : Weihnachten im alten Wien ; Geschichten & Bräuche zur schönsten Zeit des Jahres (2008) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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- Altri nomi
- Milton, Frances (birth)
Trollope, Frances - Data di nascita
- 1780-03-10
- Data di morte
- 1863-10-06
- Luogo di sepoltura
- English Cemetery, Florence, Italy
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Stapleton, Bristol, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Florence, Italy
- Luogo di residenza
- Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Nashoba Commune, Germantown, Tennessee, USA
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Florence, Italy - Attività lavorative
- novelist
writer
social reformer
feminist - Relazioni
- Trollope, Anthony (son)
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus (son)
Trollope, Frances Eleanor (daughter-in-law) - Breve biografia
- Frances Milton Trollope was a prolific English novelist and writer who often used her works as social commentary. In 1809, at age 30, she married Thomas A. Trollope, a lawyer with whom she had seven children. In 1827, she traveled to the USA and stayed at the experimental utopian community, Nashoba Commune, near Memphis, Tennessee. After her return to England, she began writing to help support her family. Her first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), was a bestseller and caused a sensation both in the UK and the USA for its unflattering view of American society. During her career, she published some 100 volumes. In the late 1830s, she moved to Florence, Italy, where she lived until her death.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Do not confuse or combine her with her daughter-in-law Frances Eleanor Trollope, née Ternan (1835-1913), also a novelist.
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 119
- Lingue
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The problem and the thing that makes it a one of a kind gem is that it's told by an Englishwoman. The conceit that makes Trollope ridiculous is the idea that after leaving England, we would automatically want to be just like them. We'd travel in ships for months, fight the natives, make roads, FIGHT THEM OFF etc, and set up another England. And we would have it all neatly wrapped up in 200 years so "our grandmother the British" could feel right at home.
It's just silly. Europe took thousands of years to get where it was in the mid nineteenth century.
What makes this book an important part of history is the light it shines on both sides simultaneously. We are, well, ourselves. And she represents everything that was wrong with the Brits at the time-mainly the conceit of thinking theirs was the only way. At the time the Brits were vigorously making sure that "the sun never sets on the British Empire".
Did she not know that they sold us the slaves? The irony! Read this and know how blind one can be to one's own country.… (altro)