![]() Hervieu was originally going to be a drawing instructor there. Their intended destination was Nashoba Commune, a utopian settlement for ex-slaves set up by the reformer Frances Wright in Tennessee. ![]() Also accompanying her was the young French illustrator Auguste Hervieu. Trollope sailed for America in 1827 with three of her children. ![]() Published in 1832 in two volumes, Domestic Manners of the Americans was a runaway bestseller and a wildly controversial takedown of what Trollope saw as a backward, uncouth, and hypocritical new nation. ![]() Her literary career began out of financial desperation when she wrote a travelogue describing her impressions of America, gathered on a three-year excursion there. Frances Trollope, today best known as the mother of the prolific and hugely popular Victorian author Anthony Trollope, was herself an extraordinarily productive writer in many genres. ![]()
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