THREE ENGLISH WOMEN IN AMERICA

UNA POPE-HENNESSY

ERNEST BENN: LONDON
1929

First edition.
The three women are Fanny Trollope, Fanny Kemble and Harriet Martineau who travelled to America between 1826-1836.

Fanny Trollope wrote Domestic Manners of the Americans, an unflattering account of her trip.
Fanny Kemble was English actress who married a wealthy Philadelphian plantation owner.
Harriet Martineau, often seen as the first female sociologist and a leading abolitionist.

22 x 14 cm. 304 pp + 3 plates.

Very good condition, cloth lightly rubbed, foxing to the page edges, remainder mark on the bottom edge, rear hinge cracking but binding still sound.