A review by lizdesole
The Great Divorce: a Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times by Ilyon Woo

5.0

Although the author makes a very serious attempt to be impartial, she can't completely mask how she feels about the Shakers. Maybe because they were crazy! Wow, I never realized how crazy. It is such a frightening account of how few rights women had in the 1810s. Thank God for women who were willing to be considered shrewish to wrestle rights from the white men in power