ABSTRACT
Frances Trollope's personal and professional histories place her on the fault lines of the debates this collection enters. Trollope's performance as an eighteenth-century traveler masks her experience as early Victorian tourist-as-consumer. Since nationalism was considerably less contentious than class was in early nineteenth-century England, at least in the context of the Anglo-American comparisons these works make. Trollope published a novel just a few months after Domestic Manners appeared, probably in an attempt to capitalize on the travel book's immediate popularity. Trollope's first border crossing in Domestic Manners of the Americans sets the tone for the rest of her book in many ways. Trollope uses her ability to observe as a way to deny others of similar economic means access to her social position. In Domestic Manners and The Refugee, these others are Americans. But in both cases she has the middle class of her own country firmly in mind.
