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Record Nr.

UNISA996200074003316

Autore

Stenhouse T. B. H., Mrs., <1829-1904, >

Titolo

Exposé of Polygamy : a lady's life among the Mormons / / Fanny Stenhouse ; edited by Linda Wilcox DeSimone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 2008

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2008

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012

©2008

ISBN

1-282-44583-9

9786612445835

0-87421-714-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Life writings of frontier women ; ; v. 10

Altri autori (Persone)

DeSimoneLinda Wilcox

Disciplina

289.3/79225

B

Soggetti

Polygamy - Religious aspects - Latter Day Saint churches

Latter Day Saint churches - Doctrines

Latter Day Saint churches

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : American News Co., 1872.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Reckoning with Fanny Stenhouse; Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady's Life among the Mormons; To the Reader; Contents; Illustrations; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter XIX [IX]; Chapter X; Chapter XI; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII; Chapter XIV; Chapter XV; Chapter XVI; Chapter XVII; Chapter XVIII; Chapter XIX; Chapter XX; Appendix; Epilogue: The 1872 Exposé of Polygamy Compared with the 1874 "Tell It All"; Appendix: List of Editions; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

After 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



intellectua ls 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.