03705oam 22006614a 450 99620797850331620240424225812.00-87421-547-1(CKB)1000000000470130(EBL)316729(OCoLC)476107522(SSID)ssj0000109733(PQKBManifestationID)11145786(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109733(PQKBWorkID)10059176(PQKB)11339997(MiAaPQ)EBC3442674(OCoLC)298788369(MdBmJHUP)muse13442(Au-PeEL)EBL3442674(CaPaEBR)ebr10233581(MiAaPQ)EBC316729(Au-PeEL)EBL316729(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/41897(EXLCZ)99100000000047013020061003d2007 uy 0engurmn#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBefore the ManifestoThe Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris /edited by Melissa Lambert Milewski1st ed.Utah State University, University Libraries2007Logan, Utah :Utah State University Press,2007.©2007.1 online resource (xv, 639 pages) illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)Life writings of frontier women ;v. 9Description based upon print version of record.0-87421-644-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-584) and index.Introduction --Memoir --Diary --Epilogue.Mary Lois Walker Morris was a Mormon woman who challenged both American ideas about marriage and the U.S. legal system. Before the Manifesto provides a glimpse into her world as the polygamous wife of a prominent Salt Lake City businessman, during a time of great transition in Utah. This account of her life as a convert, milliner, active community member, mother, and wife begins in England, where her family joined the Mormon church, details her journey across the plains, and describes life in Utah in the 1880's. Her experiences were unusual as, following her first husband's deathbed request, she married his brother as a plural wife in the Old Testament tradition of levirate marriage. Mary Morris's memoir frames her 1879 to 1887 diary with both reflections on earlier years and passages that parallel entries in the day book, giving readers a better understanding of how she retrospectively saw her life. The thoroughly annotated diary offers the daily experience of a woman who kept a largely self-sufficient household, had a wide social network, ran her own business, wrote poetry, and was intellectually curious. The years of "the Raid" (federal prosecution of polygamists) led Mary and Elias Morris to hide their marriage on "the underground," and her to perjury during Elias's trial for unlawful cohabitation. The book ends with Mary Lois's arrival at the Salt Lake Depot after three years in exile in Mexico with a polygamist colony.Life writings of frontier women ;v. 9.Latter Day Saint womenUtahSalt Lake CityBiographySalt Lake City (Utah)HistorySalt Lake City (Utah)Church historyLatter Day Saint women289.3092BMorris Mary Lois Walker1835-1919.913835Milewski Melissa Lambert793265MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996207978503316Before the manifesto2047503UNISA