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Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion New Edition
Author(s): S.j. Thomas E. Buckley (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 9 Sept. 2002
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807853801
- ISBN-13: 9780807853801
Book Description
Based on research in almost 500 divorce files, The Great Catastrophe of My Life involves a wide cross-section of Virginians whose stories expose southern attitudes and practices involving a spectrum of issues from marriage and family life to gender relations, interracial sex, adultery, desertion, and domestic violence.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“In the process of teaching us everything there is to know about divorce in antebellum Virginia, Thomas Buckley tells some remarkable stories, and he tells them well. (Jan Lewis, Rutgers University at Newark)”
About the Author
Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., is professor of American religious history at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Theological Union. He is editor of If You Love That Lady Don’t Marry Her: The Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854-1856.
