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Chargement... The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Womenpar Paula Kelly Harline
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The political and religious history of plural marriage is well known; less fully explored, according to Paula Kelly Harline, is the lived experience of polygamy from the point of view of the wives themselves. Harline, who teaches at Brigham Young University, brings an extraordinary blend of scholarship and empathy to the letters and diaries of nearly 30 such women.
The author delves deep into the diaries and autobiographies of twenty-nine polygamous women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, providing a rare window into the lives they led and revealing their views and experiences of polygamy, including their well-founded belief that their domestic contributions would help to build a foundation for generations of future Mormons. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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While only a minority of Mormons during this time period were polygamous, Kelly Harline humanizes the women by describing how many were ok with plural marriages on the surface but still experienced heart break and jealously. The book is in no way lurid and rather focuses on how these women managed their home life and their feelings with their belief in Mormonism.
"The Polygamous Wives Writing Club" is an interesting read for anyone interested in polygamy in American history. The downside of this book is that by including 29 separate stories, not much time is given to understanding the overall complexities affecting an individual family. The book would have been more of a page turner if it focused more in depth on a few families instead of glossing over 29 marriages in 200 pages. ( )