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Nata a Bristol, emigrò in America nel 1827 per prendere parte alla comunità utopica di Nashoba fondata dalla femminista scozzese Frances Wright. Al suo rientro in Inghilterra scrisse il suo primo libro, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) che la rese famosa ed è ancora oggetto di interesse (il «Guardian» lo ha inserito tra i cento migliori libri nonfiction di tutti i tempi). Scrisse più di quaranta opere anticipando molti filoni letterari, tra cui il primo romanzo antischiavista, The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1836) che ispirò La capanna dello zio Tom, e il primo romanzo di denuncia sociale, The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy (1840), contro l’impiego dei minori in fabbrica. La vedova Barnaby (1839), composta al suo interno da tre volumi, è considerata la sua opera più riuscita, ed è parte di una fortunatissima trilogia con la stessa protagonista.
Vienna and the Austrians: With Some Account of a Journey Through Swabia, Bavaria, the Tyrol, and the Salzbourg. E-book. Formato PDF Frances Trollope - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
We have certainly not improved, within the last century and a quarter, in the art of imagining or of fabricating a grave and princely dress for a grave and princely ceremony. No robes of' modern days can compare with the gold and crimson waves that ?oated round these noble knights. Even the er mined robes of our peers must yield in dignity of outline to the draperies of the Golden Fleece. The material is crimson velvet, richly embroidered with gold, and lined with white satin; but it is in the majestic and ?owing forms into which the robe and the cloak worn over it throw themselves, that the superiority consists. Had John Kemble seen an installation of knights of the Golden Fleece, he would most certainly have got up a piece to which the ceremony should have been incidental. He would have worn its robes and its cap too, so as to have done more justice to them than my pen can do. For the cap is by no means to be omitted in the his tory of this magnificent costume: it is of the same dark and massive material as the dress, with a sin gular drapery descending from it, that if suffered to fall to its full extent would reach the knees. It is in the management of this strange appendage to the head-dress that the greatest difference is perceptible in the bearing and deportment of the different indi viduals that constitute this noble body. The jewels,64 vienna.