{"id":1125,"date":"2011-12-27T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:03:22","slug":"the-great-divorce-a-nineteeth-century-mothers-extraordinary-fight-against-her-husband-the-shakerss-and-her-times-by-ilyon-woo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"The Great Divorce : A nineteeth-century mother&#8217;s extraordinary fight against her husband, the Shakers, and her times by Ilyon Woo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1135\" title=\"The Great Divorce\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Great-Divorce1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Great-Divorce1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Great-Divorce1.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the early 1800s a woman had few rights.\u00a0 If she married, she didn\u2019t own property.\u00a0 If she separated from her husband, she usually didn\u2019t have custody of her children.\u00a0 Eunice Chapman, a small woman, enlisted the support of New York State legislators to get custody of her children after her husband joined the Shakers at the Watervliet site. \u00a0This true story reads like fiction. \u00a0It is balanced and enlightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1800s a woman had few rights.\u00a0 If she married, she didn\u2019t own property.\u00a0 If she separated from her husband, she usually didn\u2019t have custody of her children.\u00a0 Eunice Chapman, a small woman, enlisted the support of New York State legislators to get custody of her children after her husband joined the Shakers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Great Divorce : A nineteeth-century mother&#8217;s extraordinary fight against her husband, the Shakers, and her times by Ilyon Woo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-carol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}