This cartoon from an 1884 issue of Puck magazine may be condemning the easy availability of divorce … but it does so at our expense:
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Indeed at our expense, but also a bit misogynistic. The applicants are all men. Didn’t women also want divorces?
What is remarkable, as I recall, is the relative ease with which a woman was able to obtain a divorce in “oppressive” Utah.