Ocupation: Novelist
Life: March 10, 1779 - October 6, 1863
Birthday: March 10
Death: October 6
It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.
source: Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.37, Oxford University Press
topic: Dine In, Silence, House, Boarding House