Clogs and Shawls: Mormons, Moorlands, and the Search for Zion

by Ann Chamberlin

In this revealing family memoir, best-selling author Ann Chamberlin explores the history of her Mormon grandmother Frances Lyda and her seven sisters who grew up desperately poor in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the early years of the twentieth century. Chamberlin's narrative follows these eight daughters of Mary Jane Jones and Ralph Robinson Whitaker, a remarkably gifted yet poor and blind piano tuner. Most of the girls were forced by necessity to abandon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607817365
• ISBN13: 9781607817369
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"