In Secret (2013) offers a much bleaker outcome. (Dream come true, am I right?) But that is the best-case scenario in the period romance universe. When Lady Chatterley’s bitter husband (who told her to have the affair!) won’t give her a divorce, she just leaves to have her baby with her sexy groundskeeper lover in Scotland. On the better end of the no-divorce romances, there is Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022). In Colette (2018), Knightly not only fell for someone other than her husband, but her repulsive spouse also took credit and control over her novels. After bearing her lover’s child, she lived a solitary life and died quietly so her husband could finally get together with his mistress. The Duchess (2008) had Knightley in a terrible marriage to a guy who had countless affairs and kept his mistress in their home but condemned Knightley for her one affair. I think divorce is a much better solution. In Anna Karenina (2012), Knightley played the titular character who couldn’t be with her lover, so she tossed herself in front of a train. Keira Knightley (the queen of period dramas) has starred in at least three movies where divorce would have been useful. The passionate affair carries on until some, probably unfortunate, ending.” The storylines usually go something like “A beautiful and feisty young woman is stuck with a man of varying degrees of dreadful, and then falls in love with some sexy man she should stay away from. To be fair, most of these movies feature arranged marriages that are also terrible, but if they could just get divorced, it would solve their problems. Sexy period dramas have the proof we needĪfter doing a lot of extensive research during my adult life, I can easily say there is a common theme: The women in bad marriages in these stories need to divorce their awful husbands. Even when unhappy women were allowed to file for divorce, it could very easily be denied with disastrous results. However, a judge could rule against the divorce if both parties did something wrong. That failure had to be pretty extreme, such as adultery, committing a felony, or abandonment. Before that, a person seeking divorce had to prove only one party was to blame for the failure of the marriage. No-fault divorces only became a standard in the United States in 1970.
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