A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 /
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 1938-
A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 / Plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 - First Edition. - xxv, 484 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-463) and index.
Introduction: An indignation meeting : Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1870 -- "Wonder on wonder strikes my sense" : Ohio, Connecticut, and Maine, 1836-1838 -- "There was many Sick among the Saints" : from the Half-Breed Tract to the British Mission, 1839-1841 -- "I now turn the key to you" : Nauvoo, Illinois, 1842 -- "a favor which I have long desired" : Nauvoo, Illinois, and a journey East, 1843 -- "Menny feemales was recieved in to the Holy Order" : Nauvoo and beyond, 1844-1845 -- "Mud aplenty" : crossing Iowa, 1846 -- "Wrote some in my earley Biography" : Camp of Israel, Winter Quarters, Omaha Nation, 1847-1848 -- "All are busy preparing to go either East or West" : Mormon Trails, 1847-1850 -- "My pen is my only weapon" : The Log Row, Salt Lake City, 1850-1851 -- "the revelation on plurality of wives was read" : Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, Hindoostan, Liverpool, 1852 -- "Synopsis of my labors" : Wilford Woodruff household, 1853 -- "we now must look after the poor" : Utah Territory, 1852-1855 -- "What a life of wandering" : San Bernardino, California, 1856-1857 -- "The house was full of females" : The Fourteenth Ward, 1857-1858 -- "The records of this House" : Utah Territory, 1858-1872.
Presents a revelatory and deeply intimate exploration of the world of early Mormon women that draws on nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts created by first-generation Latter-Day Saints.
9780307594907 0307594904
2016008859
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--Sources.
Mormons--Diaries.
Families--Religious life.
Families--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Families--Religious aspects--Mormon Church.
Mormon Church--History--Sources.
BX8693 / .U47 2017
289.309/034
A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 / Plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 - First Edition. - xxv, 484 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-463) and index.
Introduction: An indignation meeting : Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1870 -- "Wonder on wonder strikes my sense" : Ohio, Connecticut, and Maine, 1836-1838 -- "There was many Sick among the Saints" : from the Half-Breed Tract to the British Mission, 1839-1841 -- "I now turn the key to you" : Nauvoo, Illinois, 1842 -- "a favor which I have long desired" : Nauvoo, Illinois, and a journey East, 1843 -- "Menny feemales was recieved in to the Holy Order" : Nauvoo and beyond, 1844-1845 -- "Mud aplenty" : crossing Iowa, 1846 -- "Wrote some in my earley Biography" : Camp of Israel, Winter Quarters, Omaha Nation, 1847-1848 -- "All are busy preparing to go either East or West" : Mormon Trails, 1847-1850 -- "My pen is my only weapon" : The Log Row, Salt Lake City, 1850-1851 -- "the revelation on plurality of wives was read" : Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, Hindoostan, Liverpool, 1852 -- "Synopsis of my labors" : Wilford Woodruff household, 1853 -- "we now must look after the poor" : Utah Territory, 1852-1855 -- "What a life of wandering" : San Bernardino, California, 1856-1857 -- "The house was full of females" : The Fourteenth Ward, 1857-1858 -- "The records of this House" : Utah Territory, 1858-1872.
Presents a revelatory and deeply intimate exploration of the world of early Mormon women that draws on nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts created by first-generation Latter-Day Saints.
9780307594907 0307594904
2016008859
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--Sources.
Mormons--Diaries.
Families--Religious life.
Families--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Families--Religious aspects--Mormon Church.
Mormon Church--History--Sources.
BX8693 / .U47 2017
289.309/034