Fanny: A Fiction - Softcover

White, Edmund

3.15

122 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009928572X ISBN 13: 9780099285724

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

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In her fifties Fanny Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony, became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Now, twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet: the biography of her old friend Frances Wright, the Scottish radical and feminist. Back in the 1820s the young Fanny Wright erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright had convinced the older woman to follow her to America - a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships and the most satisfying (and surprising) sensual romance of Fanny Trollope's life. The 'biography soon degenerates into a settling of scores with Fanny Wright and wild digressions on the misadventures of Mrs Trollope's own family.

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Review:

"Wonderfully eccentric...Never less than convincing...Brilliant" (Daily Mail)

"Bold and brilliant...Instructive, provocative, funny, poignant and timely...Combines such exuberant invention with such informed historical insight" (Guardian)

From the Publisher:

A quirky, dazzling fiction about the lives, loves and battles of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women.

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