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A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017Copyright date: �2017Edition: First EditionDescription: xxv, 484 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780307594907
  • 0307594904
Other title:
  • Plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 289.309/034 23
LOC classification:
  • BX8693 .U47 2017
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 289.309 ULR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000550305

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.

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