# Domestic Manners of the Americans

An audiobook by Frances Milton Trollope, read by LibriVox volunteers (11 h 51 min, English).

Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, and particularly in America, where Trollope was reviled as representing the worst of old world prejudices the new republic (though the criticism did nothing to hurt sales). Accompanied by a son and two daughters, Trollope lived in the United States from 1827 to 1831, spending most of her time in Cincinnati, where she had hoped, when joined by her husband, to open a large department store, which was also to be a place of entertainment and culture. She was, unfortunately, almost entirely ignorant of business practices, and habitually short of money, which her husband was in no position to make up. After leaving Cincinnati she traveled briefly in the eastern states, before returning to England. There is something of a happy ending; Domestic Manners was her first book, and such a success that she turned to writing, producing in her lifetime over a hundred books, which, though they never made her very rich, were more than sufficient…

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## Chapters

1. 01 - Chapter 1 (7:28): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_01_trollope_64kb.mp3
2. 02 - Chapter 2 (17:28): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_02_trollope_64kb.mp3
3. 03 - Chapter 3 (26:47): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_03_trollope_64kb.mp3
4. 04 - Chapter 4 (19:40): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_04_trollope_64kb.mp3
5. 05 - Chapter 5 (15:40): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_05_trollope_64kb.mp3
6. 06 - Chapter 6 (13:11): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_06_trollope_64kb.mp3
7. 07 - Chapter 7 (18:21): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_07_trollope_64kb.mp3
8. 08 - Chapter 8 (15:37): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_08_trollope_64kb.mp3
9. 09 - Chapter 09 (21:27): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_09_trollope_64kb.mp3
10. 10 - Chapter 10 (19:56): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_10_trollope_64kb.mp3
11. 11 - Chapter 11 (13:26): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_11_trollope_64kb.mp3
12. 12 - Chapter 12 (23:59): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_12_trollope_64kb.mp3
13. 13 - Chapter 13 (23:17): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_13_trollope_64kb.mp3
14. 14 - Chapter 14 (34:11): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_14_trollope_64kb.mp3
15. 15 - Chapter 15 (16:07): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_15_trollope_64kb.mp3
16. 16 - Chapter 16 (9:37): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_16_trollope_64kb.mp3
17. 17 - Chapter 17 (16:51): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_17_trollope_64kb.mp3
18. 18 - Chapter 18 (21:34): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_18_trollope_64kb.mp3
19. 19 - Chapter 19 (19:01): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_19_trollope_64kb.mp3
20. 20 - Chapter 20 (37:26): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_20_trollope_64kb.mp3
21. 21 - Chapter 21 (7:42): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_21_trollope_64kb.mp3
22. 22 - Chapter 22 (21:20): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_22_trollope_64kb.mp3
23. 23 - Chapter 23 (14:17): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_23_trollope_64kb.mp3
24. 24 - Chapter 24 (10:29): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_24_trollope_64kb.mp3
25. 25 - Chapter 25 (15:03): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_25_trollope_64kb.mp3
26. 26 - Chapter 26 (26:32): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_26_trollope_64kb.mp3
27. 27 - Chapter 27 (17:19): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_27_trollope_64kb.mp3
28. 28 - Chapter 28 (26:59): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_28_trollope_64kb.mp3
29. 29 - Chapter 29 (37:24): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_29_trollope_64kb.mp3
30. 30 - Chapter 30 (39:01): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_30_trollope_64kb.mp3
31. 31 - Chapter 31 (21:42): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_31_trollope_64kb.mp3
32. 32 - Chapter 32 (25:19): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_32_trollope_64kb.mp3
33. 33 - Chapter 33 (39:08): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_33_trollope_64kb.mp3
34. 34 - Chapter 34 (17:19): https://archive.org/download/domestic_manners_americans_1206_librivox/domesticmanners_34_trollope_64kb.mp3