Frances Milton Trollope | |
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| Born | Frances Milton 10 March 1779 Bristol, England |
| Died | 6 October 1863 (aged 84) Florence, Italy |
| Other names | Fanny Trollope |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable work | Domestic Manners of the Americans |
| Spouse |
Thomas Anthony Trollope
(m. 1809; died 1835) |
| Children | 7; including Anthony, Thomas, and Cecilia |
| Parent(s) | William Milton Mary Gresley |
Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863), was an English novelist who wrote as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), observations from a trip to the United States, is the best known.
She also wrote social novels: one against slavery is said to have influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe, and she also wrote the first industrial novel, and two anti-Catholic novels, which used a Protestant position to examine self-making.
Some recent scholars note that modernist critics have omitted women writers such as Frances Trollope.[1] In 1839, The New Monthly Magazine claimed, "No other author of the present day has been at once so read, so much admired, and so much abused".[2]
Two of her sons, Thomas Adolphus and Anthony, became writers,[3] as did her daughter-in-law Frances Eleanor Trollope (née Ternan), second wife of Thomas Adolphus Trollope.
- ^ Nicola Diane Thompson, Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- ^ Quoted in M. Sadleir, Trollope: a commentary (London, 1945) p. 112.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.