Books by "Frances Eleanor Trollope"
12 books found
The sacristan's household, by the author of 'Aunt Margaret's trouble'.
by Frances Eleanor Trollope
1869
Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieu’s satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm in 1832. An unusual combination of realism, visual satire, and novelistic detail, Domestic Manners recounts Trollope’s three years as an Englishwoman living in America. Trollope makes the civility of an entire nation the subject of her keen scrutiny, a strategy that would earn her, in the words of the critic Michael Sadleir, “more anger and applause than almost any writer of her day.” Auguste Hervieu’s twenty-four original illustrations, placed and scaled as in the first edition, are included in this Broadview Edition, inviting readers to experience the original relationship of image and text.
Reproduction of the original: That Unfortunate Marriage by Frances Trollope
The old Sacristan quarreled with his only nephew who had married for love, not dowry. Lotte and Hemmerich had one son, Otto. When Otto was eight, Lotte died and for four years, the father would not be separated from his son, so the boy grew up learning the ways of the forest. Then Hemmerich was badly injured. Before he died, the Sacristan promised to care for Otto and Hemmerich died in peace. Soon it was time for Otto to chose a trade and he wanted to become a huntsman like his father. The Sacristan vowed he would become a pastor and sent him to University at Halle. When it became clear that Otto would not succeed there, the Sacristan dictated the boy would become a tradesman, which, as the neighbors knew, would satisfy neither the old man nor the boy. Then Otto fell in love with a woman much like his mother.
Reproduction of the original: A Charming Fellow by Frances Trollope