Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)

Frances Trollopes Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieus satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm in 1832. An unusual combination of realism, visual satire, and novelistic detail, Domestic Manners recounts Trollopes 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 Hervieus 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.