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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     White, April, author.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      White, April, author.       by title:      The divorce colony :...         MARC Display

The divorce colony : how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier / April White. by White, April, author. New York : Hachette Books, 2022. 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 (hardcover) : 0306827662 (hardcover) Description:  xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Prologue: "Is marriage a failure?" -- Maggie. A thriving and interesting place ; In good faith ; Just another ; Budding hope and dead passions ; A savage American -- Mary. Ardor and inexperience ; The campaigns ; Undesirable cattle ; A personal statement ; Let not man put asunder -- Blanche. A moral superstition ; Free as air ; The sentence ; To be left alone -- Flora. Happiness will follow thee ; A tramp and an exile ; Stupid, unjust, monstrous and foolish ; Light in the sky ; Heart -- Epilogue: A rising of ideals. Requests:  0 Summary:  In the late nineteenth century, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 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 Divorce Colony--the unexpected headquarters for unhappy spouses, and the center of a heated national debate over the future of American marriage. 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 descendant 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. --adapted from jacket and Amazon info   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.89309 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.89309 White Checked In Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.89309 White Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.89309 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.89309 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.89309 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.89309 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.89309 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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