Frances Milton Trollope - Paris and the Parisians in 1835 - Volume I

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Frances Milton Trollope, a pioneering author who began her writing career at fifty, is renowned for her incisive social commentary and novels that tackled pressing issues of her time. Her first notable work, Domestic Manners of the Americans, offered a sharp critique of American society, while her groundbreaking anti-slavery novel, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, influenced future writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe. Additionally, she authored the first industrial novel in Britain, Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy, and explored ecclesiastical corruption in The Vicar of Wrexhill. Her prolific output includes over 100 volumes, with the Widow Barnaby trilogy often regarded as her masterpiece.