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A House Full of Females

Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's study of the women of early Mormonism, built from their diaries, letters and minutes. Ulrich explores how plural wives understood their marriages and how many became advocates for women's suffrage.

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