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(CopyLink)https://tq.filegood.club/B003ZUY17U.html - Book Synopsis : &#8220Ilyon Woo presents the earliest child custody laws of this country with vivid relevance&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp. both legal and feminist details are fascinating.&#8221 &#8212St. Louis Post-Dispatch &nbspThe Great Divorce&nbspis the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America&#8217s most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her country&#8217s notions of women&#8217s rights, family, and marriage itself. &nbsp 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 as the Shakers. Defying all expectations, this famously petite and lovely woman mounted an epic campaign against her husband, the Shakers, and the law. In its confrontation of some of the nation&#8217s most fundamental debates&#8212religious freedom, feminine virtue, the sanctity of marriage&#8212her case struck a nerve with an uncertain new republic. And its culmination&#8212in a stunning legislative decision and a terrifying mob attack&#8212sent shockwaves through the Shaker community and the nation beyond. &nbsp With a novelist&#8217s eye and a historian&#8217s perspective, Woo delivers the first full account of Eunice Chapman&#8217s remarkable str

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&#8220Ilyon Woo presents the earliest child custody laws of this country with vivid relevance&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp. both legal and feminist details are fascinating.&#8221 &#8212St. Louis Post-Dispatch &nbspThe Great Divorce&nbspis the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America&#8217s most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her country&#8217s notions of women&#8217s rights, family, and marriage itself. &nbsp 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 as the Shakers. Defying all expectations, this famously petite and lovely woman mounted an epic campaign against her husband, the Shakers, and the law. In its confrontation of some of the nation&#8217s most fundamental debates&#8212religious freedom, feminine virtue, the sanctity of marriage&#8212her case struck a nerve with an uncertain new republic. And its culmination&#8212in a stunning legislative decision and a terrifying mob attack&#8212sent shockwaves through the Shaker community and the nation beyond. &nbsp With a novelist&#8217s eye and a historian&#8217s perspective, Woo delivers the first full account of Eunice Chapman&#8217s remarkable str

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