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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 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 on May 24, 2022

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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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