Stray Wives LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical Americans have found ways to

Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally

Whatever the result

Each of the fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of heterosexuality from a different angle

When the first edition of America in the Gilded Age was published in 1984

Stray Wives LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical Americans have found ways toWhereas my husband, Enoch Darling, has at sundry times used me in so improper and cruel a manner, as to destroy my happiness and endanger my life, and whereas he has not provided for me as a husband ought, but expended his time and money unadvisedly, at taverns . . . . I hereby notify the public that I am obliged to leave him. Phebe Darling, January 13, 1796 Hundreds of provocative notices such as this one ran in New England newspapers between 1790