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Frances Trollope NPG D8371

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Holl Jr, after Lucy Adams, after Auguste Hervieu

Author and mother of the famous novelist Anthony Trollope, travelled to rescue the family fortunes. Her husband succumbed to various speculative schemes, each more disastrous than the last. From 1827-30 she was in America where she tried to open an arcade in Cincinatti, which failed. She visited a friend's project to assist black slaves near Memphis, Tennessee. This, too, collapsed but left Fanny with a deep hatred of slavery. However, she then decided to record her experiences as Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832):... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.