Helen Heineman

FT 's financial situation improved dramatically after the publication of her first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832; the proceeds from her second book saved her family from poverty and enabled them to...

Throughout the 1840sFT published novels about the complications encountered by intelligent and independent young women in their search for happiness in marriage. Critic Helen Heineman observes, as she produced the light romances then in...

The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and...

Set in an insular, scenic English village, the novel centres on the destructive impact of the newly appointed vicar, Mr Cartwright, whose self-seeking machinations almost destroyed the quiet and traditional patterns of a small village...

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...

Frances Eleanor writes of FT 's determination to fix the family's financial situation by eventually having all the Trollopes move to Cincinnati, where they planned to sell imported goods and perhaps establish a market...

FT had planned to live at Carlton Hill in the Lake District near her daughter Cecilia . However, after less than a year, she had already begun to make plans to leave the house she...

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...

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. However, she agrees with the Athenæum...

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 in FT 's writing abilities.

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...

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...

Remembering her satiric tone in Domestic Manners, the Athenæum reviewer noted that FTwrites throughout in a kindlier spirit than we had anticipated. Another reviewer, too, described her tone here as...

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...

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...