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Domestic manners of the Americans / by Frances Trollope ; edited, with a history of Mrs. Trollope's adventures in America, by Donald Smalley.

Title: Domestic manners of the Americans / by Frances Trollope ; edited, with a history of Mrs. Trollope's adventures in America, by Donald Smalley.
Author: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863
Publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.

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Additional Authors

Smalley, Donald A., 1907-1993

Description

lxxxiii, 454, xix pages, xxiv pages of plates : illustrations, portrait; 25 cm

Summary

Contains primary source material.

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal narratives
Quelle.
Reisebericht.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 444-454).

Additional Formats (note)

Also issued online.

Contents

I. Entrance of the Mississippi; Balize -- II. New Orleans; Society; Creoles and quadroons; Voyage up the Mississippi; -- III. Company on board the steamboat; Scenery of the Mississippi; Crocodiles; Arrival at Memphis; Nashoba -- IV. Departure from Memphis; Ohio River; Louisville; Cincinnati -- V. Cincinnati; Forest Farm; Mr. Bullock -- VI. Servants; Society; Evening parties -- VII. Market; Museum; Picture gallery; Academy of Fine Arts; Drawing school; Phrenological Society; Miss Wright's lecture -- VIII. Absence of public and private amusement; Churches and chapels; Influence of the clergy; A revival -- IX. Schools; Climate; Water melons; Fourth of July; Storms; Pigs; Moving houses; Mr. Flint; Literature -- X. Removal to the country; Walk in the forest; Equality -- XI. Religion -- XII. Peasantry, compared to that of England; Early marriages; Charity; Independence and equality; Cottage prayer-meeting -- XIII. Theatre; Fine arts; Delicacy; Shaking Quakers; Big-bone lick; Visit of the President -- XIV. American spring; Controversy between Messrs. Owen and Campbell; Public ball; Separation of the sexes; American freedom; Execution -- XV. Camp-meeting -- XVI. Danger of rural excursions; Sickness -- XVII. Departure from Cincinnati; Society on board the steamboat; Arrival at Wheeling; Bel Esprit -- XVIII. Departure for the mountains in the stage; Scenery of the Alleghany; Haggerstown -- XIX. Baltimore; Catholic Cathedral; St. Mary's College; Sermons; Infant school -- XX. Voyage to Washington; Capitol; City of Washington; Congress; Indians; Funeral of a member of Congress -- XXI. Stonington; Great Falls of the Potomac -- XXII. Small landed proprietors; Slavery -- XXIII. Fruits and flowers of Maryland and Virginia; Copper-head snake; Insects; Elections -- XXIV. Journey to Philadelphia; Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; City of Philadelphia; Miss Wright's lecture -- XXV. Washington Square; American beauty; Gallery of Fine Arts; Antiques; Theatres; Museum -- XXVI. Quakers; Presbyterians; Itinerant Methodist preacher; Market; Influence of females in society -- XXVII. Return to Stonington; Thunder-storm; Emigrants; Illness; Alexandria -- XXVIII. American cooking; Evening parties; Dress; Sleighing; Money-getting habits; Tax-gatherer's notice; Indian summer; Anecdote of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar -- XXIX. Literature; Extracts; Fine arts; Education -- XXX. Journey to New York; Delaware River; Stage-coach; City of New York; Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies; Theatres; Public garden; Churches; Morris Canal; Fashions; Carriages -- XXXI. Reception of Captain Basil Hall's book in the United States -- XXXII. Journey to Niagara; Hudson; West Point; Hyde Park; Albany; Yankees; Trenton Falls; Rochester; Genesee Falls; Lockport -- XXXIII. Niagara; Arrival at Forsythes; First sight of the Falls; Goat Island; The rapids; Buffalo; Lake Erie; Canandaigua; Stage-coach adventure -- XXXIV. Return to New York; Conclusion.

ISBN

0876360002
9780876360002
084463090X
9780844630908

LCCN

49011380

OCLC

345028
SCSB-12376971

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library