Frances Milton Trollope

Born Frances Milton, she became widely known as Frances Trollope, or Mrs. Trollope. She was an English novelist and travel writer whose best-known book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), grew out of her time in the United States and made her famous for her vivid, unsparing eye.

Writing seriously to support her family after financial difficulties, she went on to produce a remarkable number of books, including novels, travel works, and social-problem fiction. Her work often took up public issues directly, and she is remembered as an energetic, professional author who wrote with pace, humor, and confidence.

She was also the mother of novelist Anthony Trollope, but her own career stands firmly on its own. Frances Trollope died in Florence in 1863, leaving behind a body of work that helped shape early Victorian writing about society, travel, and reform.