Domestic Manners of the Americans

by

Fanny Trollope

eBooks@Adelaide
2006

First published in 1832

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Table of Contents

  1. Entrance of the Mississippi — Balize
  2. New Orleans — Society — Creoles and Quadroons Voyage up the Mississippi
  3. Company on board the Steam Boat — Scenery of the Mississippi — Crocodiles — Arrival at Memphis — Nashoba
  4. Departure from Memphis — Ohio River Louisville — Cincinnati
  5. Cincinnati — Forest Farm — Mr. Bullock
  6. Servants — Society — Evening Parties
  7. Market — Museum — Picture Gallery — Academy of Fine Arts Drawing School — Phrenological Society — Miss Wright’s Lecture.
  8. Absence of public and private Amusement — Churches and Chapels — Influence of the Clergy — A Revival
  9. Schools — Climate — Water Melons — Fourth of July — Storms — Pigs — Moving Houses — Mr. Flint — Literature
  10. Removal to the country — Walk in the forest — Equality
  11. Religion
  12. Peasantry, compared to that of England — Early marriages — Charity — Independence and equality — Cottage prayer-meeting
  13. Theatre — Fine Arts — Delicacy — Shaking Quakers — Big–Bone Lick — Visit of the President
  14. American Spring — Controversy between Messrs. Owen and Cambell — Public ball — Separation of the sexes — American freedom — Execution
  15. Camp–Meeting
  16. Danger of rural excursions — Sickness
  17. Departure from Cincinnati — Society on board the Steam-boat — Arrival at Wheeling — Bel Esprit
  18. Departure for the mountains in the Stage — Scenery of the Alleghany — Haggerstown
  19. Baltimore — Catholic Cathedral — St. Mary’s — College Sermons — Infant School
  20. Voyage to Washington — Capitol — City of Washington — Congress — Indians — Funeral of a Member of Congress
  21. Stonington — Great Falls of the Potomac
  22. Small Landed Proprietors — Slavery
  23. Fruits and Flowers of Maryland and Virginia — Copper-head Snake — Insects — Elections
  24. Journey to Philadelphia — Chesapeak and Delaware Canal — City of Philadelphia — Miss Wright’s Lecture
  25. Washington Square — American Beauty — Gallery of Fine Arts — Antiques — Theatres — Museum
  26. Quakers — Presbyterians — Itinerant Methodist Preacher — Market — Influence of females in society
  27. Return to Stonington — Thunderstorm — Emigrants — Illness — Alexandria
  28. American Cooking — Evening Parties — Dress — Sleighing — Money-getting Habits — Tax–Gatherer’s Notice — Indian Summer — Anecdote of the Duke of Saxe–Weimar
  29. Literature — Extracts — Fine Arts — Education
  30. Journey to New York — Delaware River — Stagecoach — City of New York — Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies — Theatres — Public Garden — Churches — Morris Canal — Fashions — Carriages
  31. Reception of Captain Basil Hall’s Book in the United States
  32. Journey to Niagara — Hudson — West Point — Hyde Park — Albany — Yankees — Trenton Falls — Rochester — Genesee Falls — Lockport
  33. Niagara — Arrival at Forsythes — First sight of the Falls — Goat Island — The Rapids — Buffalo — Lake Erie — Canandaigna — Stage-coach adventures
  34. Return to New York — Conclusion
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