A house full of females : plural marriage and women's rights in early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Author)
Presents a revelatory and deeply intimate exploration of the world of early Mormon women
Print Book, English, 2017
First edition View all formats and editions
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2017
Biography
xxv, 484 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, [12] color plates ; 25 cm
9780307594907, 0307594904
955274387
Introduction: An indignation meeting : Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1870
"Wonder on wonder strikes my sense" : Ohio, Connecticut, and Maine, 1836-1838
"There was many Sick among the Saints" : from the Half-Breed Tract to the British Mission, 1839-1841
"I now turn the key to you" : Nauvoo, Illinois, 1842
"a favor which I have long desired" : Nauvoo, Illinois, and a journey East, 1843
"Menny feemales was recieved in to the Holy Order" : Nauvoo and beyond, 1844-1845
"Mud aplenty" : crossing Iowa, 1846
"Wrote some in my earley Biography" : Camp of Israel, Winter Quarters, Omaha Nation, 1847-1848
"All are busy preparing to go either East or West" : Mormon Trails, 1847-1850
"My pen is my only weapon" : The Log Row, Salt Lake City, 1850-1851
"the revelation on plurality of wives was read" : Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, Hindoostan, Liverpool, 1852
"Synopsis of my labors" : Wilford Woodruff household, 1853
"we now must look after the poor" : Utah Territory, 1852-1855
"What a life of wandering" : San Bernardino, California, 1856-1857
"The house was full of females" : The Fourteenth Ward, 1857-1858
"The records of this House" : Utah Territory, 1858-1872
Includes index