Frances Milton Trollope - The Widow Barnaby: In Three Volumes

Frances Milton Trollope, a pioneering author and mother of notable writers, began her literary career at fifty, driven by necessity. Her debut, Domestic Manners of the Americans, offered a sharp critique of American society. She was a trailblazer in social protest literature, penning the first anti-slavery novel, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, which influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe. Additionally, she authored the first industrial novel, Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy, and the significant Widow Barnaby trilogy. Over her lifetime, she wrote more than 100 volumes across various subjects.