Mrs Trollope went to Cincinnati to make money, failed comprehensively, and recouped by writing down everything she had disliked: the spitting, the manners, the camp meetings, the treatment of women and of the enslaved, and the gap between the republic’s professions and its practice. America has never quite forgiven her.
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