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A widow's tale : the 1884-1896 diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney / transcribed and edited by Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton ; introduction, notes, and register by Todd M. Compton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitney, Helen Mar, 1828-1896.
- Series:
- Life writings of frontier women ; v. 6.
- Life writings of frontier women ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitney, Helen Mar, 1828-1896--Diaries.
- Whitney, Helen Mar.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--19th century.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Latter Day Saint women--Diaries.
- Latter Day Saint women.
- Latter Day Saint churches--History--19th century.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (887 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2003.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Volume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMormon culture has produced during its history an unusual number of historically valuable personal writings. Few such diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors' lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Because it provides a rare account of the widely experienced situations and problems faced by widows, her record has relevance far beyond Mormon history though. As a teenager Helen Kimball had been a polygamous wi
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Helen Mar Whitney's Family
- 1884 Horace Has Spent a Dreadful Night
- 1885 Oh! How I Feel My Loss-My Widowhood
- 1886 It Seemed Like a Dream That I Must Awake From
- 1887 I Woke Myself Sobbing Three Times
- 1888 This Valley Is Covered with Thick Fog Today-Very Dreary
- 1889 A Beautiful White Cof.n Held the Little Lamb &
- All Pronounced Him Beautiful
- 1890 A "Liberal" Gang of the Scum &
- Boys Passed Up Our Street
- 1891 E. M. Wells Came to See Us, &
- the House, at Evening-Thought It Lovely
- 1892 We've Got to Do Something to Keep Ourselves Out of Debt
- 1893 Mary . . . Gone to Chicago . . . We Can't Afford to Go to the Saltair
- 1894 They Were the Best &
- Firmest in the Cause of Truth
- 1895 She . . . Proposed to Have All Lay Hands on My Head &
- Rebuke My Af.ictions
- 1896 I Couldnt Talk Right-After One Word All Was Mudled
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Register of Names in the Diary
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 811-830) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613267085
- 9781283267083
- 128326708X
- 9780874214857
- 0874214858
- OCLC:
- 476107868
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