Female life among the Mormons : a narrative of many years' personal experience / by the wife of a Mormon elder, recently from Utah.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ward, Maria.

Contributor:

• Ferris, B. G., Mrs. (Elizabeth Cornelia), 1809-1903, supposed author.
• Derby, J. C. (James Cephas), 1818-1892, publisher.
• Tinson, William H., stereotyper.
• Pudney & Russell, printer.
• Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
• American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
• Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, former owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Latter Day Saint women.
• Women--Utah--Social conditions.
• Latter Day Saint churches--Controversial literature.
• Polygamy--United States--History--19th century.
• Latter Day Saints--Utah--19th century.
• Latter Day Saints--Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

• Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
• Cornell, James A. H. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[5], iv, [1], vi-x, [1], 10-449, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : J.C. Derby, 1855.

Notes:

• Published anonymously.
• Attributed also to Mrs. Benjamin G. Ferris.
• Also issued under title: Maria Ward's disclosures.
• Wright, American fiction, v. II, no. 2632.

Local Notes:

• Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.
• Schimmel Collection copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("James A.H. Cornell Raritan Augt. 10. 1855") of James A.H. Cornell (1819-1899; Rutgers 1838), a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

• Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1851-1875, 2632
• Amer. fiction, 1774-1910 (microfilm, 1970-1978 ed.), v. 2 (1851-1875), reel W-5, no. 2632

OCLC:

1155694