Description
Mary Lois Walker Morris was once 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, all over 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 circle of relatives joined the Mormon church, details her journey around the plains, and describes life in Utah within the 1880s. Her experiences were strange as, following her first husband’s deathbed request, she married his brother, as a plural wife, within 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 within the day book, giving readers a greater understanding of how she retrospectively saw her life. The thoroughly annotated diary offers the day-to-day experience of a woman who kept a in large part self-sufficient household, had a wide social network, ran her own business, wrote poetry, and was once 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 in court all over Elias’s trial for unlawful cohabitation. The book ends with Mary Lois’s arrival on the Salt Lake Depot after three years in exile in Mexico with a polygamist colony.
Mary Morris’s memoir frames her 1879 to 1887 diary with both reflections on earlier years and passages that parallel entries within the day book, giving readers a greater understanding of how she retrospectively saw her life. The thoroughly annotated diary offers the day-to-day experience of a woman who kept a in large part self-sufficient household, had a wide social network, ran her own business, wrote poetry, and was once 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 in court all over Elias’s trial for unlawful cohabitation. The book ends with Mary Lois’s arrival on the Salt Lake Depot after three years in exile in Mexico with a polygamist colony.
&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/before-the-manifesto-the-life-writings-of-mary-lois-walker-morris-life-writings-frontier-women/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Vs%2BGakpTL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
, Burgundy&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/lorren-home-trends-57-piece-mabel-bone-china-dinnerware-set-service-for-8-people-burgundy/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41AimBATwpL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
, Gold&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/lorren-home-trends-57-piece-chloe-bone-china-dinnerware-set-service-for-8-people-gold/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41vAh7TCsTL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
, Amber&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/gibson-elite-ocean-paradise-square-dinnerware-set-service-for-4-16pcs-amber/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/416%2B-aF7XVL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
&url=https://www.communityconnection.us/product/pfaltzgraff-french-lace-white-dinnerware-set-32-piece/&media=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Exlads5TL._SS1024_.jpg){kind=link}
