03973nam 22007454a 450 991014350440332120200520144314.097866132670859781283267083128326708X97808742148570874214858(CKB)111087028104264(EBL)316771(OCoLC)476107868(SSID)ssj0000271857(PQKBManifestationID)11206546(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271857(PQKBWorkID)10295579(PQKB)10081625(MiAaPQ)EBC3442733(OCoLC)53924717(MdBmJHUP)muse16249(MiAaPQ)EBC316771(Au-PeEL)EBL316771(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62685(DE-B1597)716718(DE-B1597)9780874214857(Perlego)2056118(oapen)doab62685(oapen)doab88700(EXLCZ)9911108702810426420021210d2003 ub 0engurbn#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA widow's tale the 1884-1896 diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney /transcribed and edited by Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton ; introduction, notes, and register by Todd M. Compton1st ed.Logan, Utah Utah State University Press20031 online resource (887 pages) illustrationsLife writings of frontier women ;v. 69780874215571 0874215579 Includes bibliographical references (p. 811-830) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Helen Mar Whitney's Family -- 1884 Horace Has Spent a Dreadful Night -- 1885 Oh! How I Feel My Loss-My Widowhood -- 1886 It Seemed Like a Dream That I Must Awake From -- 1887 I Woke Myself Sobbing Three Times -- 1888 This Valley Is Covered with Thick Fog Today-Very Dreary -- 1889 A Beautiful White Cof.n Held the Little Lamb &amp -- All Pronounced Him Beautiful -- 1890 A "Liberal" Gang of the Scum &amp -- Boys Passed Up Our Street -- 1891 E. M. Wells Came to See Us, &amp -- the House, at Evening-Thought It Lovely -- 1892 We've Got to Do Something to Keep Ourselves Out of Debt -- 1893 Mary . . . Gone to Chicago . . . We Can't Afford to Go to the Saltair -- 1894 They Were the Best &amp -- Firmest in the Cause of Truth -- 1895 She . . . Proposed to Have All Lay Hands on My Head &amp -- Rebuke My Af.ictions -- 1896 I Couldnt Talk Right-After One Word All Was Mudled -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Register of Names in the Diary -- Index.Volume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMormon culture has produced during its history an unusual number of historically valuable personal writings. Few such diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors' lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Because it provides a rare account of the widely experienced situations and problems faced by widows, her record has relevance far beyond Mormon history though. As a teenager Helen Kimball had been a polygamous wiLife writings of frontier women ;v. 6.Latter Day Saint womenDiariesLatter Day Saint churchesHistory19th centuryLatter Day Saint womenLatter Day Saint churchesHistory289.3/092BWhitney Helen Mar1828-1896.911643Hatch Charles M.1945-911644Compton Todd1952-598969MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910143504403321A Widow's Tale2041475UNINA