Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But if the robust burghers of Cincinnati had ever known of the notebooks that bitter Mrs. Trollope was carrying home up her raveled sleeve, they would have found some way to keep her in town. "I cannot speculate," said the redoubtable old dame, "and I cannot reason; but I can...
Today, every well-read American has heard of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans-second of a long line of books that make life hard for generations of preachers of Anglo-American amity.* Now they will have a chance to read it in the best edition to...
Wind in the Willows. The U.S. in the age of Jackson was so raw, tetchy and snarling-proud that its "desire for approbation" and "delicate sensitiveness under censure" constituted "a weakness which amounts to imbecility." Other nations, said Mrs. Trollope, were "thin-skinned, but the citizens of the Union have...
There'll Be No Changes Made. Poor Frances Trollope took a terrible beating from this nation of officers and gentlemen. Chomping their chaw-packed jaws and deluging her skirts with a running fire of mis-spits, they haw-hawed at the Royal Navy, punched King George in the snoot...
Domestic Manners of the Americans sold so well both at home and abroad that it established Frances Trollope as a professional writer (she wrote more than 20 novels and books of travels in the remaining 30 years of her life) and helped to recoup for herself and her five children...