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Women Studies
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If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as well...[as] an omnibus clause in the state's legal code authorized divorce based upon..."gross misbehavior and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and inconsistent with the marriage contract"...the relative vagueness of the terms "gross misbehavior and wickedness" left room for interpretati
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― Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
― Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
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When her husband recovered, it was to shout abusively at her…. Later, when she reflected on it throughout the tedious courtroom proceedings, she realized this was the moment she had irrevocably determined to divorce her husband.
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― Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
― Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
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