Title: The Barnabys in America
Author and Title: Frances Milton Trollope. The Barnabys in America: or, Adventures of the Widow Wedded
First Edition: London: Henry Colburn, 1843. 3 volumes, post 8vo., 31s. 6d.
Serialization: New Monthly Magazine, April 1842 to September 1843 (monthly)
Summary: Her latest husband having been exposed as a card cheat at the end of the preceding novel, (the formerly widowed) Barnaby and her family flee to America where they swindle slave owners and abolitionist Quakers under the guise of writing a book on America (a wink at Trollope’s own travel book Domestic Manners of the Americans). Clio Whitlaw, aunt to the eponymous antihero of Trollope’s The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw has a cameo as a comparatively benevolent slave owner. (LP)
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