Plural wife : the life story of Mabel Finlayson Allred / edited by Martha Evans Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allred, Mabel Finlayson, 1919-2005.

Contributor:

Bradley, Martha Evans.

Series:

Life Writings Frontier Women

Life writings of frontier women ; v. 13

Life Writings Frontier Women ; v.13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allred, Mabel Finlayson, 1919-2005.

Allred, Mabel Finlayson.

Apostolic United Brethren--Biography.

Apostolic United Brethren.

Latter Day Saint fundamentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mabel Finlayson Allred was a wife of Rulon Allred, leader of the Apostolic United Brethren, one of the major groups of fundamentalist Mormons who, since about the 1930's, have practiced plural marriage as separatists from the mainstream Latter-day Saints Church. Mabel's autobiography maintains a mood of everyday normalcy strikingly in contrast with the stress of the ostracized life she was living. Her cheerful tone, expressive of her wish to live simply and gracefully in this world, is tempered by more somber descriptions of her personal struggle with clinical depression, of Rulon

Contents:

Table of Contents; Illustrations; Introduction - Martha Bradley-Evans; Preface - Mabel Finlayson Allred; My Life Story - Mabel Finlayson Allred; Postlude: Dedication to their parents - The Allred children; "My Darling Mabel": Letters and poetry - From Rulon C. Allred to Mabel Allred

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

9786613854728

9781457184628

1457184621

9780874218756

0874218756

9781283542272

1283542277

OCLC:

821726232