tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703080158487459516.post682605390221833003..comments2023-12-30T02:55:25.744-08:00Comments on Rebecca Gratz & 19th-Century America: Rebecca Pulls Some More StringsSusan Sklaroffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16518778240284747439noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703080158487459516.post-68461891534910744582010-07-02T20:06:07.477-07:002010-07-02T20:06:07.477-07:00just read your comments and posted a reply...I won...just read your comments and posted a reply...I wonder if any of the Gratz letters talk about Landsdown and the family's stay there. I would so LOVE to locate some mention of the "neighbors" at Fountain Green (altho Landsdown was on the other side of the Schuylkill, almost opposite). Anyway, with all the talk of importance of marriage through the ages and how bad divorce is (re: Anne Binghams daughter)...it seems those young ladies who married Very Early, ie in the teens, always seem to have the gumption to take on Divorce. It happened to my gt gt grandmother Emma Francis m. Lemuel Edelen in San Francisco 1875. By the time she was 20 she had two daughters (one my gt grandmother) and he wanted to go back east to live permanently, and she promptly refused, and they were divorced in SF. She married again at the ancient age of 30 something, and lived happily ever after.StimmeDesHerzenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15084934926989805342noreply@blogger.com