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White, April.
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Divorce -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls -- History -- 19th century.
Divorce -- Law and legislation -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls.
Divorced women -- United States -- Biography.
Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Sioux Falls (S.D.) -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
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White, April.
Divorce -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls -- History -- 19th century.
Divorce -- Law and legislation -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls.
Divorced women -- United States -- Biography.
Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Sioux Falls (S.D.) -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
MARC Display
The
divorce
colony
:
how
women
revolutionized
marriage
and
found
freedom
on the
American
frontier
/ April White.
by
White, April.
Hachette Books, 2022.
Call #:
306.89309 W582d
Subjects
Divorce
-- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls -- History -- 19th century.
Divorce
-- Law and legislation -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls.
Divorced
women
-- United States -- Biography.
Married
women
-- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Women
-- United States -- Social conditions.
Sioux Falls (S.D.) -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
ISBN:
9780306827662 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xv, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"A fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century
women
who moved to South Dakota to
divorce
their husbands and start living on their own terms. For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one sure to garner disapproval from fellow passengers. On the
American
frontier
, the new state offered a tempting
freedom
often difficult to obtain elsewhere:
divorce
. With the laxest
divorce
laws in the country, five railroad lines, and the finest hotel for hundreds of miles, the small city became the unexpected headquarters for unhappy spouses -- infamous around the world as The
Divorce
Colony
. These society divorcees put Sioux Falls at the center of a heated national debate over the future of
American
marriage
. As clashes mounted in the country's gossip columns, church halls, courtrooms and even the White House, the
women
caught in the crosshairs in Sioux Falls geared up for a fight they didn't go looking for, a fight that was the only path to their
freedom
. In The
Divorce
Colony
, writer and historian April White unveils the incredible social, political, and personal dramas that unfolded in Sioux Falls and reverberated around the country through the stories of four very different
women
: Maggie De Stuers, a descendent of the influential New York Astors whose
divorce
captivated the world; Mary Nevins Blaine, a daughter-in-law to a presidential hopeful with a vendetta against her meddling mother-in-law; Blanche Molineux, an aspiring actress escaping a husband she believed to be a murderer; and Flora Bigelow Dodge, a vivacious woman determined, against all odds, to obtain a 'dignified'
divorce
. Entertaining, enlightening, and utterly feminist, The
Divorce
Colony
is a rich, deeply researched tapestry of social history and human drama that reads like a novel. Amidst salacious newspaper headlines, juicy court documents, and high-profile cameos from the era's most well-known players, this story lays bare the journey of the turn-of-the-century socialites who took their lives into their own hands and reshaped the country's attitudes about
marriage
and
divorce
."--Publisher.
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