Frances Trollope

Frances Trollope

Frances Trollope (born March 10, 1779 in 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 the lawyer Thomas Anthony Trollope in 1809 and gave birth to seven children. When her husband got into a financial crisis, Frances Trollope emigrated to the USA with her family in 1827. She first settled in the short-lived utopian community of Hygieia and then lived in Cincinnati , Ohio. After her return to England took place in 1831 published Trollope 1832 the highly successful critical report Domestic Manners of the Americans ( The domestic manners of the Americans ), and thus began the age of 52 years, her writing career. As a result, the author appeared as the author of numerous socially critical (sequel) novels, the tendency of which was directed against slavery , child labor and other social ills, including the novel Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy , published in 1840 . Trollope thus influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others, and contributed to changing the climate of opinion in relation to the British factory system. Trollope also continued to publish 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 (re-edited in 2003 by the Viennese Promedia-Verlag under the title: A Winter in the Imperial City - with a foreword by Gabriele Habinger.)

Trollope's descriptions are detailed, colorful, often sharp-tongued and formulated from the point of view of a socially minded but conservative member of the British upper class (although the author could not actually be considered as such). Trollope has therefore often met with sharp criticism, especially in the USA. (She accused the local society of, among other things, rudeness, vulgarity and financial greed; in the case of Vienna, for example, she criticized the “waltz fever” and the aristocracy's aristocracy's aristocracy's conceit against the newly ennobled). The author spent the last 20 years of her life from over 40 other source even over 100 books in Florence. Her third son was the novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882).

Web links

• Literature by and about Frances Trollope in the catalog of the German National Library
• Frances Trollope in the Literary Encyclopedia
• Works by Frances Trollope at Project Gutenberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frances Trollope [1780–1863]. In: cincinnatilibrary.org. Pp. 1–11 , archived from the original on February 19, 2017 ; accessed on February 19, 2017 (English, original website no longer available).