Framing American Divorce
Subtitle: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780520231962
Subjects: Cultural studies; Family & relationships; Family law; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Social History; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Domestic Relations - Divorce & Separation; Law; History - U.S.; USA; Divorce & Separation; United States - General; History / General; Family Law - Divorce & Separation
First sentence: On a bleak day in the early spring of 1879, a somber young woman boards a train in Boston to begin the first leg of a journey to Indiana.