The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times

by Ilyon Woo

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Ilyon Woo's The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America's most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her country's notions of women's rights, family, and marriage itself. In 1814, Eunice Chapman came home to discover that her three children had been carried off by her estranged husband. He had taken them, she learned, to live among a celibate, religious people known...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0802119468

ISBN13:9780802119469

Release Date:August 2010

Publisher:Atlantic Monthly Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

19th Century Christian Books & Bibles Christian Living Divorce & Separation Domestic Relations Family Law History Law Legal History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Protestantism Religion Religion & Spirituality Women in History Women's Studies

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