Divorce: An American Tradition

by Glenda Riley

Book Overview

In 1639, Puritans in Massachusetts granted the first divorce in America, to Mrs. James Luxford, on grounds of bigamy (she was awarded Mr. Luxford's property and he was fined, placed in the stocks, then banished to England). Divorce has been a fact of American life ever since. Indeed, by 1880, one in sixteen marriages ended in divorce; by 1928, one in six; and today, one out of every two American marriages ends in divorce.
In Divorce, Glenda Riley...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061233
• ISBN13: 9780195061239
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"