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

by Ilyon Woo

Book Overview

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"