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		Americans ate rather than dined, the better to accelerate the high-velocity ingestion of what were also noticed to be large, if not supersize portions.
		Mrs Trollope is amused that domestic servants insist on calling themselves "help" and bewildered that so many thousands of young woman would rather toil "half-naked" (she thinks) in factories, than subject themselves to the indignities of domestic service.
		Domestic Manners of the Americans made Frances Trollope, at the age of 52, a sudden literary reputation, and £1,000 from the proceeds of the first runaway edition.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4635105-110738,00.html (2886 words)

	Trollope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		She deserved gratitude, but it is an error to suppose she got it." In 1832, Trollope wrote "Domestic Manners of the Americans"; something that was very popular to the English, but was reviled by Americans.
		"Domestic Manners" is split into seven different sections: The Mississippi, Servants, Society, Amusement, Schools, Hogs, and Literature.
		She speaks of "the loathsome spitting", "uncouth phrases and pronunciation", and "the frightful manner of feeding with their knives".
	cal.jmu.edu /aleysb/Trollope.htm (483 words)

	Table Manners
		While some rules seem a bit quaint, most 19th Century table manners would not be out of place today.
		Manners aside, all was not well at the American table.
		Numerous commentators noted the absence of the husband from the domestic table, American's refusal to carry on friendly conversation while eating, and a tendency to eat rapidly and get the job of eating over as soon as possible.
	www.lahacal.org /gentleman/table.html?peruser.co.uk (765 words)

	wecker052000
		Trollope - who went on to write a scathing account of her 25-month stay in Porkopolis, entitled ''Domestic Manners of the Americans'' - it was yet another example of the crude, rude and appalling behavior typical of Cincinnati and the louts who lived here.
		Trollope was roundly vilified around these parts and across the country for her high-falutin' attitudes, to the point that her name came to be applied to slatternly women of no discernable dignity.
		''Domestic Manners of the Americans'' was a phenom.
	www.cincypost.com /living/2000/wecker052000.html (868 words)

	Foreign Observations
		Fanny Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832
		Make an American believe that his next door neighbor is a very worthless fellow, then I dare say (if he were sure he could make nothing by him) he would drop his acquaintance; but as to what constitutes a worthless fellow; people differ on opposite sides of the Atlantic..."
		They are unable to distinguish those nice shades of manner which as effectually separate the clown from the gentleman with us, as do...broader lines, which mark these two classes among all other nations.
	www.lahacal.org /gentleman/nastyquote.html (310 words)

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		Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steam boat; for myself, it is with all sincerity I declare, that I would infinitely prefer sharing the apartment of a party of well conditioned pigs to the being confined to its cabin.
		In conversing with Americans I have constantly found that if I alluded to anything which they thought I considered as uncouth, they would assure me it was local, and not national; the accidental peculiarity of a very small part, and by no means a specimen of the whole.
		To me, the dreary coldness and want of enthusiasm in American manners is one of their greatest defects, and I therefore hailed the demonstrations of general feeling which this day elicits with real pleasure.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/3/4/10345/10345-8.txt (16839 words)

	Amazon.com: Domestic Manners of the Americans (Penguin Classics): Books: Fanny Trollope,Pamela Neville-Sington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Certainly her complaints about the lack of gentility among Americans is valid but she completely missed the wonderful lack of class restraints endemic to English society which afforded Americans "class mobility"--freedom of opportunity (except for native Americans and slaves).
		Examination of Frances Miltons Trollope's book "Domestic Manners of the Americans" appears to be her personal catharsis that England had lost to this "unmannered" America twice (the Revolution and 1812).
		The failings of American society and America's system of government are illuminated scathingly, and the amazing thing is that the observations made 150 years ago are still valid now.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140435611?v=glance (1931 words)

	Lauterbach
		Vigorously embittered in her criticism, Frances Trollope declares in Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) rather disingeniously that upon returning to some miscellaneous poetry, which she had extracted for transcription, she "thought that ill-nature and dulness, ('oh ill-matched pair!') would be more served by their insertion, than wholesome criticism" (2, 157).
		Despite subsequent reservations, he is instantaneously "dazzled by the brilliancy of the spectacle" of Spanish American emancipation (1, 49) and expresses his interest to participate more fully in the novel developments (see e.g., 1, 11; 2, 129).
		This appreciation of seeking to adopt British manners is echoed even more emphatically by the Robertson brothers who claim that, while Spanish Americans (in Buenos Aires and elsewhere) "imitated the comfortable habits of John Bull, they avoided his dissipation" (69).
	clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu /clcweb01-2/lauterbach01.html (5114 words)

	Captain Basil Hall's "Travels"
		The Americans have surely no fair right to be offended because my views differ from theirs; and yet I am told I have been rudely handled by the press of that country.
		A large party, who had crossed from the American side, wound up the steep ascent from the place where the boat had left them; in doing so their backs were turned to the cataracts, and as they approached the summit our party was the principal object before them.
		To hint to the generality of Americans that the silent current of events may change their beloved government, is not the way to please them ; but in truth they need be tormented with no such fear.
	www.history.rochester.edu /canal/bib/trollope (12704 words)

	Amazon.com: Star-Spangled Eden: 19th Century America Through the Eyes of Dickens, Wilde, Frances Trollope, Frank Harris ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Travel journalist Simmons (Americans: The View from Abroad, etc.) leads readers on a lively and engrossing romp across the continent, as seen by eight British travelers (who, happily, all kept detailed logs of their stay in America).
		Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans became a bestseller in England, but was reviled in the U.S.--Trollope was none too sympathetic to the Yankees, who in her eyes were little more than uncivilized boors.
		(She was especially repulsed by Americans' lack of table manners.) Fanny Kemble, an English actress who married a Georgia planter, published her journal of the two years she spent as plantation mistress (the marriage ended in disaster, and Kemble returned to England as an outspoken abolitionist).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786707348?v=glance (1511 words)

	Anthony Trollope
		His father, Thomas Anthony Trollope, a barrister who had been fellow of New College, Oxford, was reduced to poverty by unbusinesslike habits and injudicious speculation, and in 1829 Anthony's mother, Frances Milton Trollope, went with her husband to the United States to open a small fancy-goods shop in Cincinnati.
		The enterprise was a failure, but her three years' stay in that country resulted in a book on the Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), of which she gave an unflattering account that aroused keen resentment.
		Strange as his conception of official duty may seem, it was evidently quite honest and sincere, and, though he is said to have been as an official popular neither with superiors nor inferiors, he no doubt did much good work.
	www.nndb.com /people/975/000084723 (1721 words)

	Women in America
		I am led to mention this feature of American manners very frequently, not only because it constantly recurs, but because I consider it as being in a great degree the cause of that universal deficiency in good manners and graceful demeanour, both in men and women, which is so remarkable.
		She talked fluently, and without any American restraint, and I began to be greatly puzzled as to who or what she could be; a lady, in the English sense of the word, I was sure she was not, and she was as little like an American female of what they call good standing.
		The dress, both of boys and girls, was elegantly neat, and their manner, when called upon to speak individually, was well-bred, intelligent, and totally free from the rude indifference, which is so remarkably prevalent in the manners of American children.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/DETOC/fem/trollope.htm (14606 words)

	Domestic Manners of the Americans - Fanny Trollope - Penguin UK
		Domestic Manners was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.
		A masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel-writing, it is also a timeless satire on a society torn between high ideals and human frailties.
		Appendix A: Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of the Americans
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780140435610,00.html (286 words)

	JMISC #11: Frances Wright's 'Explanatory Notes' on Nashoba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Born in 1795, She and her younger sister Camila were orphaned very early, and sent to live in London with a grandfather, and an aunt whom she came to despise; she also came to despise their Tory politics.
		Fanny Wright had always abhored American slavery, though it took her a long time to see just how deeply embedded it was in the nation's life.
		As Wright composed a sort of manifesto to be presented to the newpaper of another communal venture in the American west, (Robert Owen's New Harmony), Mrs.
	www.earlyrepublic.net /jm970325.htm (4006 words)

	Books & Reading: Book Reviews
		This is one of the lesser complaints in her first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans, published in London in 1832.
		And she was dismayed by the ignorance and insipidity of most women, and the rough talk and table manners of the ubiquitous "generals, colonels and majors": "the voracious rapidity with which the viands were seized and devoured.
		So it is a pleasure to learn that, by another fluke inheritance, this gallant woman spent her final decade (she died at age 84) with her family in the Villino Trollope, a splendid house in Florence, with terraces, gardens and a great library of rare books.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/books/reviews/fannytrollope1213.htm (844 words)

	Unhappily Ever After - New York Times
		Jane Austen's comic novels end in marriage; Tyler's bittersweet one begins with the marriage of her two ''amateurs,'' Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay, who are thrown together when Pauline is brought into the Anton grocery store for treatment of a wound she's incurred jumping off a streetcar to join an enlistment parade.
		The grocery store is ''a dim, cram-packed cubbyhole with an L-shaped wooden counter and shelves that reached the low ceiling,'' where Michael's mother wraps up tins of peas for a customer while her son methodically stacks bars of Woodbury soap.
		Into this protected space, life suddenly erupts: a world conflict has gotten under way even as the domestic conflict that will be the novel's subject waits its turn.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E2DE1E3EF932A25752C0A9629C8B63 (469 words)

	American private gardens in the nineteenth century
		The natural capacity of this seat for improvement has been taken advantage of in a very judicious manner; and every circumstance has been laid hold of, and acted upon, which could tend to beautify or adorn it.
		The pleasure-grounds are laid out on just principles, and in a most judicious manner; and there is an excellent range of hot-houses, with a collection of rare plants, remarkable for their variety, cleanliness, and handsome growth.
		The seat of Joseph Bonaparte, near Bordentown, on the New Jersey shore Delaware, is in the midst of an extensive tract of land, on which the ex-monarch has built several houses, which are occupied by French tenants.
	www.gardenvisit.com /got/18/18.htm (1906 words)

	Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope (chapter23)
		Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope (chapter23)
		It is, I conceive, quite impossible for any description to convey an idea of the sounds which assail the ears from the time the short twilight begins, until the rising sun scatters the rear of darkness, and sends the winking choristers to rest.
		Make an American believe that his next-door neighbour is a very worthless fellow, and I dare say (if he were quite sure he could make nothing by him) he would drop the acquaintance; but as to what constitutes a worthless fellow, people differ on the opposite sides of the Atlantic, almost by the whole decalogue.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /t/trollope/fanny/domestic/chapter23.html (1721 words)

	"Fanny: A Fiction" by Edmund White - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		New York Times Book Review, it is not as good as the book on which it is based, Fanny Trollope's own "Domestic Manners of the Americans" -- though I have my doubts about that claim.
		"Domestic Manners," with its acerbic observations on the boastful, tetchy, oafish and uncultured Americans she encountered during her journey, became fodder for Tories arguing against social change.
		The great joke of this gossipy, confiding and often ironic book, is that Trollope turns out to be more of an American -- in the best sense of the word -- than the idealistic Wright.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2003/10/28/fanny/index_np.html (720 words)

	Dot.coms and outsiders - The Washington Times: Non-Fiction Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Ever since Fanny Trollope sailed the Atlantic in 1827 to write "Domestic Manners of the Americans," the Brits have been using the United States for their own literary purposes.
		After having a nightmare that the missing girl's body is in his basement, Tom discovers just where Chick has been living, and the novel hurtles toward maximum confusion, danger and, well, Americanness.
		But, then, so has every other Briton's account of the domestic manners of the Americans.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20031129-105902-7977r.htm (967 words)

	Manners Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
		A habit of always using good manners makes those around you happy and life more pleasant.
		Written by the former chairman of Tiffany's, this is a simplified, illustrated guide to basic table manners for anyone--teenaged or not--who'd like to...
		Search Manners from UK database and other international databases.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search_5/Manners.html (533 words)

	HONR 288D Fall '05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		We’ll start with Benjamin Franklin’s early parsing of what it means to be “civil” and examine connections between manners and abolitionism in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
		We’ll also track the role of manners in children’s magazines like St. Nicholas and the Youth’s Companion and consider the tradition of advice columns by reading Judith Martin, who keeps us on our toes even today with her “Miss Manners” column.
		For final projects, students are encouraged to consider examining the role of manners in a variety of media that in addition to novels, short stories, and poetry, will include movies, television shows, cookbooks, music, and comedy routines.
	www.honors.umd.edu /COURSES/0508/288D0508.htm (292 words)

	Descriptions of Maryland: A Miscellany
		There was one preacher whose manner and matter were so peculiar, that I took the liberty of immediately writing down a part of his discourse as a specimen.
		A geographical model, large enough to give clear ideas of continent, island, cape, isthmus, et cetera, all set in water, is placed before the children, and the pretty creatures point their little rosy fingers with a look of intense interest, as they are called upon to shew where each of them is to be found.
		I have been told by very good authority that the satirical works of English writers have had a decidedly beneficial effect upon the habits and manners of the Americans; within the last ten years the improvement is perceptible to the most careless observer.
	www2.mcdaniel.edu /History/miscellany.html (17910 words)

	Delta Swine
		His miserable domestic cousin dies at a porcine concentration camp – mechanically, anonymously, horribly, obscenely.
		And long after any memory of his domestic cousins have been flushed, his mounted head, adorning a den or hunting camp, provokes no end of convivial yarns and banter – and all in his honor.
		Yes, compare this brave and noble life and fate to that of the fat, feeble porker incarcerated his short life in a stinking pen, castrated without anaesthesia, whomped on the head by a bored drone, then churned into plastic wrapped sausage so you – dear readers – can enjoy a hearty breakfast.
	www.lewrockwell.com /fontova/fontova19.html (1467 words)

	"A Revival"
		from Chapter VIII of Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Mrs.
		We had not been many months in Cincinnati when our curiosity was excited by hearing the "revival" talked of by every one we met throughout the town.
		For myself, I confess that I think the coarsest comedy ever written would be a less detestable exhibition for the eyes of youth and innocence than such a scene.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/DETOC/religion/trollrev.html (1600 words)

	Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction
		Her first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans, published in 1832, brought her immediate success.
		As a matter of fact, everything I have divulged of the "plot" of this novel in the preceding paragraphs is a matter of historical record.
		As I read the book and as I write this review, I refer to my copy of Domestic Manners of the Americans, Neville-Sington's 1997 biography, Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman, and the Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope (which focuses on Anthony but which refers to his family members as well).
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_white_fanny.html (1012 words)

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