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Elder Northfield's Home: Or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar

Elder Northfield's Home: Or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar

Bartlett, A. Jennie
Tonkovich, Nicole

Paperback

Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0803271840
ISBN13: 9780803271845
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Feb 1 2015
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield's Home, published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882, is both a staunchly antipolygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy's victims. Her book traces the fate of a virtuous and educated English immigrant woman, Marion Wescott, who marries a Mormon elder, Henry Northfield. Shocked when her husband violates his promise not to take a second wife, Marion attempts to flee during the night, toddler son in her arms and pulling her worldly possessions in his toy wagon. She returns to her husband, however, and the balance of the novel traces the effects of polygamy on Marion, Henry, and their children; their eventual rejection of plural marriage; and their return to a normal and healthy family structure.

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