Domestic Manners of the Americans
Author: first_name: Frances Milton
last_name: Trollope
Language: English
Year: 1832

Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, and particularly in America, where Trollope was reviled as representing the worst of old world prejudices the new republic (though the criticism did nothing to hurt sales).<br /><br />

Accompanied by a son and two daughters, Trollope lived i