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UNINA9910785554703321 |
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Autore |
Allred Mabel Finlayson <1919-2005.> |
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Titolo |
Plural wife [[electronic resource] ] : the life story of Mabel Finlayson Allred / / edited by Martha Evans Bradley |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Logan, : Utah State University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4571-8462-1 |
9786613854728 |
0-87421-875-6 |
1-283-54227-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Collana |
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Life Writings Frontier Women ; ; v.13 |
Life writings of frontier women ; ; v. 13 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latter Day Saint fundamentalism |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of Contents; Illustrations; Introduction - Martha Bradley-Evans; Preface - Mabel Finlayson Allred; My Life Story - Mabel Finlayson Allred; Postlude: Dedication to their parents - The Allred children; "My Darling Mabel": Letters and poetry - From Rulon C. Allred to Mabel Allred |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mabel Finlayson Allred was a wife of Rulon Allred, leader of the Apostolic United Brethren, one of the major groups of fundamentalist Mormons who, since about the 1930's, have practiced plural marriage as separatists from the mainstream Latter-day Saints Church. Mabel's autobiography maintains a mood of everyday normalcy strikingly in contrast with the stress of the ostracized life she was living. Her cheerful tone, expressive of her wish to live simply and gracefully in this world, is tempered by more somber descriptions of her personal struggle with clinical depression, of Rulon |
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