Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-307) and index.
Contents:
Before they met: family life in the mid-nineteenth century, 1830-1861 -- "My former self has lost its identity": The courtship and weeding, 1861-1863 -- No future brighter: Braving the perils of marriage and reconstruction politics, 1863-1868 -- No future brighter: braving the perils of marriage and reconstruction politics, 1863-1868 -- "Argument and pertinacity": the difficult years, 1868-1873 -- The beginning of the end: domestic infidelities and family life, 1874-1878 -- "Whiskey, economy and disregarded wishes": The Narragansett affair, domestic abuse, and state politics, 1879 -- "Extreme cruelty and gross misbehavior": divorce and politics, 1800 -- "Baleful grief and bitter bread": surviving divorce in the gilded age, 1881-1915.
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