The first comparison between Charles Dickens, Alexis De Tocqueville, and Fanny Trollope is how they all experienced the travels across the Atlantic Ocean into the newly found United States. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century was a gruesome, life-threatening endeavor for all travelers, regardless of wealth or health. Deciding whether to make the journey may have been harder. In 1831, Alexis De Tocqueville sailed for America aboard the Schooner LE Havre. Alexis De Tocqueville traveled to the United States to study the American federal disciplinary systems within prisons. Although, within the book Letters from America, Tocqueville sailed from Le Havre on April 2, 1831 and landed on Newport, Rhode Island, on May 9, Tocqueville only traveled thirty-seven days at sea. However, to Tocqueville this felt like an eternity. According to Letters From
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Lastly, Fanny Trollope had the opportunity to travel to the Americas twice, which made the experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean an easier one to handle. When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist. According to Domestic Manners Of The Americans, “ On the 4th of November, 1827, I sailed from London, accompanied by my son and two daughters; and after a favorable, though some what tedious voyage, arrived on Christmas-day at the mouth of the Mississippi” (Trollope, 9). In contrast to Alexis De Tocqueville and Charles Dickens traveled long strenuous experiences traveling across the Atlantic Ocean while Fanny Trollope experienced the excursion twice and only being aboard a ship for a month. Overall, Crossing the Atlantic Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century was a gruesome, life-threatening endeavor for all travelers, regardless of wealth or health. However, life within the new world was a whole new
Lastly, Fanny Trollope had the opportunity to travel to the Americas twice, which made the experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean an easier one to handle. When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist. According to Domestic Manners Of The Americans, “ On the 4th of November, 1827, I sailed from London, accompanied by my son and two daughters; and after a favorable, though some what tedious voyage, arrived on Christmas-day at the mouth of the Mississippi” (Trollope, 9). In contrast to Alexis De Tocqueville and Charles Dickens traveled long strenuous experiences traveling across the Atlantic Ocean while Fanny Trollope experienced the excursion twice and only being aboard a ship for a month. Overall, Crossing the Atlantic Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century was a gruesome, life-threatening endeavor for all travelers, regardless of wealth or health. However, life within the new world was a whole new