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The Divorce Colony

How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
  • April White
2022
Hachette Books

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Featured Excerpts

  • “The Marriage of Convenience,” 1883, by William Quiller Orchardson, depicting a bored young woman and an older man at opposite ends of a long dining room table.
    Book Review

    How To Lose a Guy in the Gilded Age

    Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce
    by Jennifer Wilson via The New Republic
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on June 28, 2022
  • Drawing of showing woman and man embracing.
    Book Excerpt

    The 19th Century Divorce That Seized the Nation and Sank a Presidential Candidate

    When James G. Blaine went to war with his son's ex-wife in the national press, he had no idea that two could play that game.
    by April White via Politico Magazine on June 17, 2022
  • A drawing of Blanche Chesebrough with her husband standing out of frame, his hand on her shoulder.
    Book Excerpt

    Escape From the Gilded Cage

    Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota.
    by April White via Smithsonian Magazine on May 24, 2022

Associated Excerpts

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Minnehaha County Courthouse

Seeking the Last Remnants of South Dakota’s ‘Divorce Colony’

How Sioux Falls became a controversial Gilded Age “Mecca for the mismated.”
by April White via Atlas Obscura on June 14, 2022
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