Helen Heineman

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...

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...

Heineman suggests that FT 's interest in women's characters and position greatly influenced her son's writing: Alone among the great male writers of his century, Anthony produced vibrant, robust, and complex female characters ....

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

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...

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.