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Visiting America and writing about it was common English practice after the Napoleonic wars and after the war with America. Captain Basil Hall, whose Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828 appeared in 1830, was used by Fanny Trollope, in her Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832). Both writers compare America unfavorably with Canada, the obedient colony. Dickens refers to both these, and to Harriet Martineau’s Society in America (1837), which appeared after her extensive visits to America (September 1834 to August 1836), followed by her Retrospect of Western Travel (1838). Captain Marryat’s Diary in America (1839), deeply unsympathetic, recorded a visit made at the end of the decade, between 1837 and 1838.
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Fanny Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans ed. Pamela Neville-Sington (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997), 3.27. Further references in text.
See James Tackach, Great American Hotels (New York: Smithmark, 1991), p. 6.
See Sander Gilman, Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), p. 84.
Benita Eilser, The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), p. 22.
Quoted, Paul E. Cohen, Manhattan in Maps 1527–1995 (New York: Rizzoli, 1997), p. 102.
See Amy Gilman Srebnick, The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
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Tambling, J. (2001). After Dickens. In: Lost in the American City. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312292638_2
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