num_pages: 200
description: After the 1872 publication of Expos Fanny Stenhouse became a celebrity in the cultural wars between Mormons and much of America. An English convert she had grown disillusioned with the Mormon Church and polygamy which her husband practiced before associating with a circle of dissident Utah intellectuals and merchants. Stenhouses critique of plural marriage Brigham Young and Mormonism was also a sympathetic look at Utahs 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 expose' of Polygamy. 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 Stenhouses important piece of Americana Linda DeSimone rescues an important autobiographical and historical record from the baggage notoriety brought to it.
language: English
title: Exposé of Polygamy: A Lady's Life Among the Mormons
publisher: Utah State University Press