A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 / Laurel...
A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 / Laurel...
A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
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Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2017/5871
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xxv, 484 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, [12] color plates ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
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.
"A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of U...
Alternative Titles
Full title
A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-463) and index.
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2017/5871
Record Identifier
74VKVgyz4MWX
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyz4MWX
Other Identifiers
ISBN
0307594904 (hardcover)
9780307594907 (hardcover)
DDC
289.309034
MMS ID
991024148693402626
