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    612-822-4611

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

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

Woo, Ilyon

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral ChristianityGeneral Law

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 080214537X
ISBN13: 9780802145376
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Aug 16 2011
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Ilyon Woo's The Great Divorce is a dramatic, richly textured narrative history of early America's most infamous divorce case. A young mother singlehandedly challenged her country's notions of women's rights, family, and marriage itself--all in a bid to win back her kidnapped children from the celibate, religious sect known as the Shakers. Pulling together the pieces of this saga from crumbled newspapers, Shaker diaries, and long-forgotten letters, Woo delivers the first full account of Eunice Chapman's epic five-year struggle. A moving story about the power of a mother's love, The Great Divorce is also a memorable portrait of a rousing challenge to the values of a young nation.

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