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Expose of polygamy : a lady's life among the Mormons / Fanny Stenhouse ; edited by Linda Wilcox DeSimone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stenhouse, T. B. H., Mrs., 1829-1904.
- Series:
- Life writings of frontier women ; v. 10.
- Life writings of frontier women ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stenhouse, T. B. H., Mrs., 1829-1904.
- Stenhouse, T. B. H.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Doctrines.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Latter Day Saint churches--Controversial literature.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Latter Day Saint churches--Doctrines.
- Polygamy--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.
- Polygamy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2008.
- Utah State University Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- After the 1872 publication of Exposé of Polygamy, Fanny Stenhouse became a celebrity in the cultural wars between Mormons and much of America. An English convert to Mormonism, she had grown disillusioned with the Mormon Church and with polygamy, which her husband practiced before associating with a circle of dissident Utah intellectua ls and merchants. Stenhouse's critique of plural marriage, Brigham Young, and Mormonism was also a sympathetic look at Utah's people and honest recounting of her life. Before long, she created a new edition, titled Tell It All, which ensured her notoriety in Utah and popularity elsewhere but turned her thoughtful memoir into a more polemical, true exposé. Since 1874, it has stayed in print, in multiple, varying editions. The original book, meanwhile, is less known, though more readable. Tracing the literary history of Stenhouse's important piece of Americana, Linda DeSimone rescues an important autobiographical and historical record from the baggage notoriety brought to it.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction: Reckoning with Fanny Stenhouse; Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady's Life among the Mormons; To the Reader; Contents; Illustrations; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter XIX [IX]; Chapter X; Chapter XI; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII; Chapter XIV; Chapter XV; Chapter XVI; Chapter XVII; Chapter XVIII; Chapter XIX; Chapter XX; Appendix; Epilogue: The 1872 Exposé of Polygamy Compared with the 1874 "Tell It All"; Appendix: List of Editions; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : American News Co., 1872.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) 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:
- 9786612445835
- 9781282445833
- 1282445839
- 9780874217148
- 0874217148
- OCLC:
- 437415416
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