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1 electronic resource (xiv, 639 pages ). |
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Life writings of frontier women ; v. 9 |
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Life writings of frontier women ; v. 9.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 576-584) and index. |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Memoir -- Diary -- Epilogue. |
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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. |
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English. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Morris, Mary Lois Walker, 1835-1919.
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Morris, Mary Lois Walker, 1835-1919.
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Morris, Mary Lois Walker, 1835-1919 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcgBfRK76FG48md4VtqcP
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Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- Biography.
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Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Church history.
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Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History.
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Saintes des derniers jours -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- Biographies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Mormon women
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Utah -- Salt Lake City
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrXKyyVxhtdWq4Cjyw4q
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Milewski, Melissa Lambert.
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Before the manifesto Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2007. 9780874216448 (alk. paper) (DLC) 2006032515 |
| ISBN |
9780874216448 alk. paper |
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0874216443 alk. paper |
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0874215471 |
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9780874215472 |
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AU@ 000051350075 |
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DEBSZ 484690930 |
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GBVCP 1008652199 |
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UKMGB 020143363 |
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