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Hauteville House
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Report of the D'Hauteville Case
Paul Daniel Gonzalve Grand d'Hauteville sued his wife and her parents for custody of his son, Frederick Sears Grand d'Hauteville. The case was tried in July, 1840, at the Court of General Sessions for the city and county of Philadelphia.
A Judgment for Solomon
A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d'Hauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couple's bitter fight over their son to explore some timebound and timeless features of American legal culture. In a narrative analysis, it recounts how marital woes led Ellen and Gonzalve d'Hauteville into what Alexis de Tocqueville called the 'shadow of the law'. Their multiple legal experiences culminated in an eagerly followed Philadelphia trial that sparked a national debate over the legal rights and duties of mothers and fathers, and husbands and wives. The story of the d'Hauteville case explains why popular trials become 'precedents of legal experience' - mediums for debates about highly contested social issues. It also demonstrates the ability of individual women and men to contribute to legal change by turning to the law to fight for what they want.
The Words of Bernfrieda
Based on contemporary accounts of the 11th-century Norman conquest of southern Italy from the Byzantines and Muslims, The Words of Bernfrieda mixes history and fiction as it attempts to retrieve glimpses of the lives of women largely ignored by official history.
The Words of Bernfrieda
Based on contemporary accounts of the 11th-century Norman conquest of southern Italy from the Byzantines and Muslims, The Words of Bernfrieda mixes history and fiction as it attempts to retrieve glimpses of the lives of women largely ignored by official history.
Hauteville House
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Chief Contemporary Dramatists
"Chief Contemporary Dramatists" (second series) features 18 plays from England, Ireland, America, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Scandinavia, selected and edited by Thomas H. Dickinson. Facsimile reprint, 1921 edition.
