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Title: The Old World and the New

Author and Title: Frances Milton Trollope. The Old World and the New: A Novel

First Edition: London: Henry Colburn, 1849. 3 volumes, post 8vo., 31s. 6d.

Summary: In financial straits, the Stormont family leaves England to seek opportunity on the banks of the Ohio River. Their new life in the U.S. is juxtaposed with letters from their Francophile cousin who is in Paris during the French Revolution of 1848. Trollope draws on her own experiences living in Cincinnati. (LP)

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References: BL; EC; UCLA

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