"Of all those tourists I like Dame Trollope best....She knew her subject well, and she set it forth fairly and squarely....She did not gild us; and neither did she whitewash us."--Mark Twain. Frances Trollope, mother of Anthony, visited America at a critical period of its history and wrote an enduring, if irreligious, portrait of the nation. Horrified at Americans' lack of manners and decorum, Trollope wrote with biting sarcasm of frontier life, the hardship of travel, the emptiness of American cities at night, and the ...
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"Of all those tourists I like Dame Trollope best....She knew her subject well, and she set it forth fairly and squarely....She did not gild us; and neither did she whitewash us."--Mark Twain. Frances Trollope, mother of Anthony, visited America at a critical period of its history and wrote an enduring, if irreligious, portrait of the nation. Horrified at Americans' lack of manners and decorum, Trollope wrote with biting sarcasm of frontier life, the hardship of travel, the emptiness of American cities at night, and the fanatic religiosity of fundamentalism. Her apt descriptions and wit make this travelogue as valuable and entertaining today as was when it was first published nearly 100 years ago.
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