The experiences of six middle-aged English women who went to and wrote about the USA in the nineteenth century. They included Fanny Trollope: the actress Fanny Kemble; Jane Austen's niece and a poverty stricken wife setting out, with her husband, to make a new life for her family. Their ups and downs are vividly evoked by an author who makes clear that she has ups and downs of her own. An absorbing read.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 74 Autumn 2014 ) |
