Fanny Trollope was born in Bristol in 1779 and at 29 married Thomas and over the years bore him seven children (one died at birth). One of those children was Anthony Trollope. This might easily have been the only reason for interest in her. However, Fanny Trollope was the author of over 30 novels in her own right and was, in her day, an enormous bestseller - turning her pen to many controversial subjects, including slavery in the USA and in the Industrial Revolution in Manchester, and her best known work, "The Domestic Manners of the Americans", which, at the time, earned her a reputation as unlady-like and a profligate woman. Her husband suffered from chronic headaches, probably exacerbated by mercury-based drugs which were given to him and which contributed to his black moods. With a husband who could not support the family, and after the death of her third son Arthur of TB, she set off from Harrow, leaving her husband and two sons behind her, for Tennessee with her three remaining children and a French artist to join a Utopian community there.

Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman

NEVILLE-SINGTON, Pamela

Biographies & Memoirs

VIKING

<p>When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to England Fanny turned her misfortunes into a remarkable book. A masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel-writing, Domestic Manners of the Americans is a vivid and hugely witty satirical account of a nation and was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.</p>

Domestic Manners of the Americans (Penguin Classics)

TROLLOPE, Fanny

Arts & Literature

Penguin Classics

When his beloved wife died in 1861, Robert Browning's world changed forever. He left Italy, his home for the last fifteen years (the whole of his married life) and returned to London with his career in tatters and a twelve-year-old son who spoke better Italian than English. Henry James said of Browning that there would be 'no more interesting chapter of his biography than that of his return from his long Italian absence, stricken and lonely...to address himself to a future indefinite and obscure'. Pamela Neville-Sington has taken her cue from the novelist and begins her life of Robert Browning with the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.After her death Browning knew he had to break free from Elizabeth's influence to find a way to survive - to live, possibly to love, and to write - without her. He sought to put his marriage behind him, yet the desire to cling to her memory - and to preserve the myth surrounding their life together - was overwhelming. As the story unfolds, we witness Browning's struggle to raise young Pen alone and at the same time to rediscover his poetic inspiration. We also see a lonely man drawn dangerously close to three very different women - the sensitive Julia Wedgwood, the adoring American Katharine Bronson, and the impetuous Louisa, Lady Ashburton.

Robert Browning: A Life After Death

Community & Culture

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

<p>A portrait of the mother of Anthony Trollope presents the life of this acclaimed author of the Victorian era through a celebration of her triumphs, a profile of her family, and a review of her works</p>

Viking Adult

Robert Browning spent fifteen years married to fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett. He was 49 when Elizabeth died, and it is her death that is the starting point of this new biography. The central drama of Browning’s life was the conflict between his need to put his marriage behind him, and his overwhelming desire to cling to his wife’s memory and preserve the literary myth of their marriage. But this was also a time when the poetic inspiration that had for years eluded him began to flourish once more as Browning sought to live, and possibly love, again. Pamela Neville-Sington is the author of the highly praised Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman.

Literature & Fiction

Phoenix

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Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman

Domestic Manners of the Americans (Penguin Classics)

Robert Browning: A Life After Death

Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman

Robert Browning: A Life After Death