Though coveting popularity, he felt like a pariah, and left school with the conviction that he had "been flogged oftener than any human being alive."
During his school years the family was in poor circumstances. His father was unable to support them, so his mother, the vigorous Frances (Fanny) Trollope, took matters into her own hands. In 1827 she made an excursion to America, where she set up a bazaar in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the intention of making money by selling gewgaws and objets d'art. This enterprise failed, but her experience prompted her to write; and on her return she sold her book, The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), which was not the less a success for being highly critical of American mores. Thereafter she supported the family by her pen, even when they had to escape ahead of the bailiffs to Bruges in Belgium. Here she continued to write in the intervals of nursing a tubercular son and daughter and her husband, who had long been subject to bouts of illness. All three died between 1834 and 1835. Fanny Trollope continued to write through a long career, during which she produced over a hundred books.
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