Auguste Hervieu

Facing destitution, and perhaps feeling unsure of her husband's ability to support the family, FT decided to take her two daughters, Cecilia and Emily , sixteen-year-old Henry , Auguste Hervieu , two servants, and most...

When Hervieu decided to try his luck in Washington, FT decided to accompany him. One of her oldest friends, Anna Maria Stone , lived just ten miles from the capital. FT took lodgings for...

FT was struck again with malaria in autumn 1830 and as Hervieu was unable to help them this time, she continued to write to her husband asking for funds for her and her daughters to...

Whether or not Frances Wright 's utopian colony was FT 's chosen final destination, the decision to leave it came swiftly after her arrival. She and her travelling companions were disappointed by the conditions at...

FT had moved from Bruges to Paris with her husband, her daughters, and her close friend Auguste Hervieu .

She still had not heard from her husband by May, though she had sent him nine letters. The travellers were without money. Henry , finding himself overworked and frustrated at the disorder of the commune...

She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne 's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region...

In 1828 FT grew acquainted with Joseph Dorfeuille , a French naturalist and the curator of the Western Museum of Cincinnati , whose collection of Indian artefacts and other local and natural interests struck her...

Her next idea was an exhibition of Dante 's Infernal Regions. Hervieu painted the scenes, and the museum's own wax manipulator, Hiram Powers , created the figures.

After her husband arrived, he provided FT with funds he had somehow scraped together in order to buy the lands, lay prospects on the shipping of goods from Europe, and pay the construction cost for...

Back in England, in the winter of 1833-1834 most of the Trollope family suffered from influenza, and FT grew greatly concerned for the health of her children, particularly Henry , Cecilia , and Emily, who...

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...

It took several years for the Trollopes' financial difficulties to turn into a financial catastrophe, and during those years, FT entertained many friends and acquaintances, including Lady Milman , whose husband had been Queen Charlotte

The house at Harrow continued to see social gatherings, amateur theatrical productions, and the company of literary and artistic guests. FT also continued to take in those who had fled to England from the Continent...