A house full of females
Subtitle: plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780307594907
Subjects: Mormon Church; Families; Diaries; Mormons; Sources; Religious life; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; History
Other titles: Plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-463) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: An indignation meeting : Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1870; title: "Wonder on wonder strikes my sense" : Ohio, Connecticut, and Maine, 1836-1838; title: "There was many Sick among the Saints" : from the Half-Breed Tract to the British Mission, 1839-1841; title: "I now turn the key to you" : Nauvoo, Illinois, 1842; title: "a favor which I have long desired" : Nauvoo, Illinois, and a journey East, 1843; title: "Menny feemales was recieved in to the Holy Order" : Nauvoo and beyond, 1844-1845; title: "Mud aplenty" : crossing Iowa, 1846; title: "Wrote some in my earley Biography" : Camp of Israel, Winter Quarters, Omaha Nation, 1847-1848; title: "All are busy preparing to go either East or West" : Mormon Trails, 1847-1850; title: "My pen is my only weapon" : The Log Row, Salt Lake City, 1850-1851; title: "the revelation on plurality of wives was read" : Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, Hindoostan, Liverpool, 1852; title: "Synopsis of my labors" : Wilford Woodruff household, 1853; title: "we now must look after the poor" : Utah Territory, 1852-1855; title: "What a life of wandering" : San Bernardino, California, 1856-1857; title: "The house was full of females" : The Fourteenth Ward, 1857-1858; title: "The records of this House" : Utah Territory, 1858-1872.