Wealhtheow’s Reviews > In a Gilded Cage: From Heiress to Duchess > Status Update

"While as early as the 1860s, as Auguste Carlier reports in Marriage in the United States (1867), 3000 easy divorces were being declared in America every year, with a pop of 30 million, as late as 1910 the yearly average in Britain was only 638, with a pop of 37 million. American divorce laws had been comparatively generous ever since most state legislatures had revised their statutes in the 1830s and 1840s."