Fanny Trollope
by Teresa Ransom
31 Members (4.00)
On This Page
Description
Born in Bristol in 1779, Fanny Trollope was the daughter of a country parson. She married a barrister in 1809, and produced seven children in eight years, but with her husband in financial trouble she decided to take three of the children to America where living was cheaper. She also hoped to set up her son Henry in business. The bazaar she built was a disaster, and she returned to England on borrowed money, but the book of those years, Domestic Manners of the Americans, was an instant show more bestseller, and changed her life forever. Still plagued by financial problems, the family were forced to flee to Belgium, where Fanny became the sole breadwinner, supporting the family by writing, while nursing her husband and Henry, who were both now dying. She wrote until she was seventy-seven, producing forty-one books in twenty-four years. With their accurate and wickedly satirical look at the modes of contemporary Regency and early Victorian life, her books caused outrage among many, but were widely admired by many of the leading writers of the day, among them Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. This new biography, the result of extensive research in the UK, Europe and Australia, draws on little-known family albums and papers to present a compelling portrayal of a remarkable woman writer. A vivid and engaging life story, it also importantly makes clear the formative influence that Fanny had on her son Anthony's work. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
historical biographies : great lives, well told
64 works; 4 members
Crinoline and gumption
12 works; 1 member
Author Information
5 Works 62 Members
Teresa Ransom trained and worked as an actress in Australia. She is the author of two previous biographies, Fanny Trollope: A Remarkable Life, (subsequently dramatised as a two-woman show), and The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of the Victorian Bestseller. Born in England, she has lived in Canada and Australia, and now lives in Cambridge
All Editions
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Frances Trollope
- First words
- Frances Milton, known as Fanny, was born at Stapleton, near Bristol, on Wednesday 10 March 1779.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 31
- Popularity
- 900,980
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
