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Herrick’s Desertion Case Splits Realist Author and Wife
Special to The Washington Post. Robert Herrick, University of Chicago English professor and noted realist, fights divorce from Harriet Herrick after 19 years of marriage and one son. The couple, cousins, wed in Milwaukee in 1894 to evade Illinois cousin marriage laws and have lived apart since February 1913, with Herrick expressing controversial views on love and matrimony in his writings and interviews.
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