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John Milton, the Essayist, Episode 2
Sharon Achinstein, who is editing Milton's tracts on divorce, unravels his controversial and surprisingly modern views on the subject. In 1644, he was calling for no-fault divorce on grounds of mutual incompatibility - which the law finally allowed in 1977.
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