Paris and the Parisians

by Frances Milton Trollope

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Genres: Nonfiction

544 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1836

About the author

Frances Milton Trollope (1779 – 1863), more popularly known as Fanny Trollope, was an English novelist and writer whose first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), caused an international sensation upon its publication. Trollope’s more than 100 books include strong social novels, such as the first anti-slavery novel, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1836), which influenced Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe; the first industrial novel, Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy; and The Vicar of Wrexhill, which took on the corruption of the church of England; as well as two anti-Catholic novels, The Abbess and Father Eustace. Between 1839 and 1855 Trollope published her Widow Barnaby trilogy of novels, and her other travel books include Belgium and Western Germany in 1833, Paris and the Parisians in 1835, and Vienna and the Austrians. Her first and third sons, Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Anthony, also became writers; Anthony Trollope was influenced by his mother's work and became renowned for his social novels.
She is sometimes confused with her daughter-in-law, the novelist Frances Eleanor Trollope.

Reviews

[Muaz Jalil · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have this exact edition. I had high hopes about this because I loved her "Domestic Manners." I feel it was 100+ pages too long, and because it was after she became famous, I think she was too self-conscious, and as a result, some of her criticism of Paris, such as the Louvre, seemed a bit forced. She met Chateaubriand.

In one place, she says women should face scorn just because she feels a single life is more suited to her! It's very progressive indeed. But then she also seems to be pro-capital punishment and against the French jury's leniency when they suggest extenuating circumstances.