Description
In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright convinced her to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life.
Fanny: A Fiction is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 10/26/2004
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.30w x 0.95d
ISBN13: 9780060004859
ISBN10: 0060004851
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Alternative History
- Fiction | Friendship