Ilyon WoosThe Great Divorceis the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century Americas most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her countrys notions of womens 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 as the Shakers. Defying all expectations, this famously petite and lovely woman mounted an an epic campaign against her husband, the Shakers, and the law. In its confrontation of some of the nations most fundamental debatesreligious freedom, feminine virtue, the sanctity of marriageher case struck a nerve with an uncertain new republic. And its culminationin a stunning legislative decision and a terrifying mob attack sent shockwaves through the Shaker community and the nation
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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
By: Ilyon Woo
ISBN-10: 0802119468
ISBN-13 : 978-0802119469
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition (August 10, 2010)
Language : English
Hardcover: 416 pages
Reading Age : None
Dimensions : 6 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
Item Weight : 1.23 pounds
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