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Domestic Manners of the Americans

Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), Inferred

InferredFuller uses 'Trollopian records' as a recognized cultural reference ? Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) was the notorious and widely-read British account of American frontier manners, which cataloged precisely the kind of domestic indecorums (overcrowded sleeping quarters, shared facilities, rough tavern life) that Fuller has just experienced.

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Documented 1843

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1836

1844

1846

1850

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“we had this bit of experience, else might we have pronounced all Trollopian records of the kind to be inventions of pure malice.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller uses 'Trollopian records' as a recognized cultural reference ? Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) was the notorious and widely-read British account of American frontier manners, which cataloged precisely the kind of domestic indecorums (overcrowded sleeping quarters, shared facilities, rough tavern life) that Fuller has just experienced.