qtd. in
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
255, 297
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death | Frances Trollope | Her tombstone was engraved with a Latin inscription, which translates in part to: Here lies what was mortal of Frances Trollope—but her special spirit is divine, and her memory seeks no marble monument. qtd. in Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 255, 297 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Trollope | Thomas Adolphus writes in his autobiography of his and his siblings' positive experiences with their mother: [a]ll our happiest hours were spent with her; and to any one of us a tête-à-tête with her was... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | Frances's earliest friendships were forged with intelligent young women like herself, such as Marianne Gabell
, a headmaster's daughter. She also socialized with older women, including Mrs George Mitford
, the mother of Mary Russell Mitford |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Trollope | |
Leisure and Society | Frances Trollope | Though FT
had been a popular person in the places where she had lived in England, she did not fare as well with the American elite. Heineman
suggests that the combination of her highly visible... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Domestic Manners, remains FT
's best-known work. Her biting indictment of American life caused an immediate sensation, selling exceedingly well in both England and America. She was, and continues to be, both denounced... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Though FT
continues to be viewed as a caustic, prejudiced critic of unfamiliar social manners, as well as a snobbish middle-class Englishwoman eager to attack those she perceived to be beneath her, her travel journals... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Heineman
refers to this response when she claims the most intriguing aspect of the novel for most critics was the reversal of traditional sex roles. All the male characters are feeble, contemptible, and easily ruled... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Remembering her satiric tone in Domestic Manners, the Athenæum reviewer noted that FTwrites throughout in a kindlier spirit than we had anticipated. Athenæum. J. Lection. 351 (1834): 529 |
politics | Frances Trollope | In preparation for her 1840 novel Michael Armstrong, FT
travelled to Manchester to look into the conditions of children working in factories. This research visit inspired her outspoken writings against child labour and the... |
Reception | Frances Trollope | Heineman
claims reception was poor in England as well as America because the cultural climate in the former was beginning to resemble that of the latter; because of this, controls on women's behaviour were seen... |
Reception | Frances Trollope | Helen Heineman
finds that for some time this book moves like an exciting mystery story, but that it then declines into melodrama, and Hargrave himself becomes a monstrosity. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 206 |
Reception | Frances Trollope | Helen Heineman
describes this book as a pastiche of seances, mesmerism, Roman Catholic
conversions, wicked guardians, and social class snobbery that displays a distinct decline Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 249 |
Reception | Anthony Trollope | Helen Heineman
, biographer of AT
's mother, argues that his vibrant, robust, and complex female characters and the way their predicament as women is presented, all owe their being to Frances Trollope
's literary... |
Residence | Frances Trollope | They built additions to the smallish building, giving the structure an odd shape, and though it was not nearly as nice as Julians, FT
and her family managed to make their new home quite... |
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