The Americans - Domestic Manners: Complete edition, Volumes I and II

Frances Milton Trollope’s The Americans: Domestic Manners — Complete Edition, Volumes I & II remains one of the most vivid and controversial portrayals of early 19th-century American life ever written by a European observer.

Drawing from her travels through the United States between 1827 and 1831, Trollope offers a sharp, often witty, and sometimes caustic account of American customs, social behavior, religion, and democracy in practice. With the discerning eye of a novelist and the candor of a moralist, she describes river towns, political meetings, frontier settlements, and parlors filled with self-made citizens—revealing both the vital energy and rough edges of a society still finding its identity.

Part travel narrative, part social critique, The Americans: Domestic Manners stands as a landmark work of transatlantic observation, admired for its lively prose and fearless insight. Though criticized in its time for its frankness, Trollope’s chronicle endures as a rare and invaluable record of the manners, morals, and contradictions of the young republic.

Complete and unabridged edition of both Volumes I & II

Detailed firsthand observations of American domestic life, religion, and culture in the 1820s

A key text in the study of transatlantic travel writing and early American society

Essential reading for collectors of 19th-century literature, social commentary, and Americana