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The Great Divorce

The Great Divorce

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

by Ilyon Woo
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/08/2011

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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.
ISBN:
9780802145376
9780802145376
Category:
History of the Americas
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-08-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
208x137x30mm
Weight:
0.39kg
Ilyon Woo

Ilyon Woo is the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times and the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Writing Grant.

Her articles have appeared in venues such as The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal, and she has received support for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other organisations. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.

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