page_title: Elizabeth Kane
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Kane
caption_attribution_description: English: Elizabeth Wood Kane in Salt Lake City. Picture taken by C.R. Savage most likely in 1872-1873 during winter Utah visit.
context_page_description: Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane was a British-American physician, writer, philanthropist, and women's rights activist. She was one of the first students to attend the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. Her writing supported the part her husband, Thomas Kane, played in the lobbying efforts to prevent the Poland Bill from persecuting members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were practicing plural marriage at the time.
  She wrote two travel accounts, Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey through Utah to Arizona and A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, published from her letters to home and her personal diaries that recounted the time she spent in Utah with Thomas Kane, associating with the Mormons. While these books may have influenced Congressional debate about the Poland Bill, more importantly, they represent a close, first-person account of Mormons in the mid-late 1880s, revealing their lifestyles and opinions about polygamous practices.
context_section_description: Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane (12 May 1836 – 25 May 1909) was a British-American physician, writer, philanthropist, and women's rights activist. She was one of the first students to attend the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. Her writing supported the part her husband, Thomas Kane, played in the lobbying efforts to prevent the Poland Bill from persecuting members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were practicing plural marriage at the time.
  She wrote two travel accounts, Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey through Utah to Arizona and A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, published from her letters to home and her personal diaries that recounted the time she spent in Utah with Thomas Kane, associating with the Mormons. While these books may have influenced Congressional debate about the Poland Bill, more importantly, they represent a close, first-person account of Mormons in the mid-late 1880s, revealing their lifestyles and opinions about polygamous practices.
caption: Kane in Salt Lake City, c. 1872
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