Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women

by Paula Kelly Harline

Book Overview

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints renounced the practice of plural marriage in 1890. In the mid- to late nineteenth century, however--the heyday of Mormon polygamy--as many as three out of every ten Mormon women became polygamous wives. Paula Kelly Harline delves deep into the diaries and autobiographies of twenty-nine such women, providing a rare window into the lives they led and revealing their views and experiences of polygamy, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019934650X
• ISBN13: 9780199346509
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"