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Exposé of polygamy: a lady's life among the Mormons

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dc.contributor.authorStenhouse, Fanny, author
dc.contributor.authorDeSimone, Linda Wilcox, editor
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:47:08Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:47:08Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstractAfter the 1872 publication of Exposé of Polygamy, Fanny Stenhouse became a celebrity in the cultural wars between Mormons and much of America. An English convert to Mormonism, she had grown disillusioned with the Mormon Church and with polygamy, which her husband practiced before associating with a circle of dissident Utah intellectuals and merchants. Stenhouse's critique of plural marriage, Brigham Young, and Mormonism was also a sympathetic look at Utah's 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 exposé. 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 Stenhouse's important piece of Americana, Linda DeSimone rescues an important autobiographical and historical record from the baggage notoriety brought to it.--Provided by publisher.
dc.description.tableofcontentsIntroduction: Reckoning with Fanny Stenhouse -- "Exposé of polygamy in Utah: a lady's life among the Mormons -- Epilogue: The 1872 "Exposé of Polygamy" compared with the 1874 "Tell it All" -- Appendix: List of editions.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/87836
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofUtah State University Press
dc.relation.ispartofLife Writings of Frontier Women
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dc.subject.lcshMormon Church -- Controversial literature
dc.subject.lcshMormon Church -- Doctrines
dc.subject.lcshPolygamy -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church
dc.subject.lcshStenhouse, T. B. H., Mrs., 1829-1904
dc.titleExposé of polygamy: a lady's life among the Mormons
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