Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)

Sara Danger is Associate Professor of English at Valparaiso University.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frances Milton Trollope: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Appendix A: Related Texts by Frances Trollope



Preface to the Fifth Edition of Domestic Manners of the Americans (1839)
Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of the Americans
A Statement on Auguste Hervieu from a Letter to Mary Russell Mitford (27 April 1827)
Three Statements on the Composition and Publication of Domestic Manners of the Americans


From a Letter to Mary Russell Mitford (28 July 1830)
From a Letter to Julia Garnett Pertz (18 April 1831)
From a Letter to Julia Garnett Pertz (27 June 1832)



Appendix B: Related Documents from Cincinnati, Ohio, 1828-31



From “The Invisible Girl,” The Cincinnati Gazette (12 April 1828)
“View of Mrs. Trollope’s Bazaar,” Cincinnati Mirror (November 1833)
From “THE BAZAAR,” Cincinnati Directory and Advertiser for 1829 (1829)
“Bazaar,” The Cincinnati Gazette (23 November 1829)
Auguste Hervieu, “A Card. To the Public of Cincinnati,” The Cincinnati Gazette (19 December 1829)
From Timothy Flint, Review of General Lafayette’s Landing and Reception at Cincinnati, an Historical Painting, by Auguste Jean J. Hervieu, The Western Monthly Review (1830)
Paintings by Auguste Hervieu Made during His Residency in Cincinnati, 1828-30


Cupid at a Quaker Courtship (1830)
Allegory: Knowledge vs. Orthodox Religion (1830)
A Young Man with the Initials J.L.F. (c. 1830)



Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews of Domestic Manners of the Americans



From The Quarterly Review (1832)
From The Athenaeum (24 March 1832)
From The Edinburgh Review (1832)
From The Gentleman’s Magazine (1832)
From The New Monthly Magazine (1832)
From The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1832)
From The Literary Gazette (24 March 1832)
From The American Quarterly Review (1832)
From [Timothy Flint,] The Knickerbocker (1833)
The New Monthly Magazine (1832)

Appendix D: Responses and Satire



The Trollope Family, from a sketch taken from life, made in Cincinnati in 1829 (1832)
“Miscellanea—Mrs. Trollope,” Review of Childs and Inman’s “The Trollope Family,” The Athenæum (10 November 1832)
Nimrod Fish, Mrs. Trollop’s Quick Step (1837)
From [Frederick William Shelton,] The Trollopiad, or, Travelling Gentlemen in America (1837)
From David Claypoole Johnston, “Trollopania,” Scraps (1833)

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