Frances Trollope

Frances Trollope ( born March 10, 1779 Stapleton, near Bristol as Frances Milton; † October 6, 1863 in Florence) was a British novelist and travel writer.

Life

Frances ( Fanny ) Milton, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman and inventor married in 1809 the Attorney Thomas Anthony Trollope and gave birth to seven children. When her husband got into a financial crisis, Frances Trollope in 1827 emigrated with her family to the United States. They settled first in the short-lived utopian community Hygieia down and then lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. After her return to England in 1831 made ​​Trollope published in 1832 the highly successful critical report Domestic Manners of the Americans ( The domestic manners of the Americans ) and thus began at the age of 52 years her writing career. As a result, the author appeared as the author of numerous socially critical ( continuation ) on novels whose tendency was directed against, among others slavery, child labor and other social evils, including the 1840 published novel Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy. Trollope thus influenced, among others, Harriet Beecher Stowe and contributed to change the climate of opinion in relation to the British factory system at. But Trollope published continue travelogues, including well-known works such as Paris and the Parisians and (1838 ) Vienna and the Austrians, the result of a trip to Vienna in 1836 (2003 re- edited from the Vienna Promedia publishing house under the title: A winter in the Imperial City - with a foreword by Gabriele Habiger. )

Trollope's descriptions are detailed, colored, often sharp-tongued and from the standpoint of a socially-minded but conservative members of the British upper class of formulated ( though the author could not really be considered as such). Trollope is therefore frequently encountered sharp criticism, especially in the U.S.. ( They assumed the local society, among other rudeness, vulgarity and financial greed, in the case of Vienna, she criticized, for example, the " Waltz fever " and the snobbery of the old aristocracy against the newly ennobled ) The last 20 years of her life, the author of more than 40, according to other source even over 100 books in Florence. Her third son was the novelist Anthony Trollope ( 1815-1882 ).

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