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As a hedge against possible failure to prove adultery, this alleged “that for a period of time from 1901 and continuing thereafter he [had] kept up and continued an undue, improper, indecorous and licentious association and intimacy with a woman, named Mabel Cochrane, many years his junior, and of questionable character and immoral habits.”[i] Furthermore, Nina accused James of “bestowing upon and receiving marked and improper attention” beginning in the fall of 1901, “indulging in undue and imp
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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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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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