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Excerpt from Life in Mormon Bondage (1908; 224-25)

Excerpt from Life in Mormon Bondage (1908; 224-25) L e g ac y P Ro f i l e Ann Eliza Webb Young (Denning) (1844­after 1908) university of Arkansas at Little rock nn Eliza Webb Young, the onetime plural wife of brigham Young, has not been invisible in either her time or our own. the 1875 publication of her autobiography, Wife No. 19, or the Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy, caused a furor, and for a decade Young kept her name in the public eye by going on the lecture circuit. in 1908, she revised Wife No. 19, adding new material and giving the volume a new title: Life in Mormon Bondage; a Complete Exposé of Its False Prophets, Murderous Danites, Despotic RulFig. 1. Ann Eliza Young, c. 1875. Marian S. Carson collection, prints ers and Hypnotized, Deluded Subjects. & photographs Division, Library of More recently, she has been the subCongress, LC-uSZC4-6668. ject of irving Wallace's extensive biography, The Twenty-Seventh Wife, and the newly released novel by David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife. Yet her years as brigham Young's fifty-second wife and, apparently, his nineteenth living wife (the total http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Legacy University of Nebraska Press

Excerpt from Life in Mormon Bondage (1908; 224-25)

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L e g ac y P Ro f i l e Ann Eliza Webb Young (Denning) (1844­after 1908) university of Arkansas at Little rock nn Eliza Webb Young, the onetime plural wife of brigham Young, has not been invisible in either her time or our own. the 1875 publication of her autobiography, Wife No. 19, or the Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy, caused a furor, and for a decade Young kept her name in the public eye by going on the lecture circuit. in 1908, she revised Wife No. 19, adding new material and giving the volume a new title: Life in Mormon Bondage; a Complete Exposé of Its False Prophets, Murderous Danites, Despotic RulFig. 1. Ann Eliza Young, c. 1875. Marian S. Carson collection, prints ers and Hypnotized, Deluded Subjects. & photographs Division, Library of More recently, she has been the subCongress, LC-uSZC4-6668. ject of irving Wallace's extensive biography, The Twenty-Seventh Wife, and the newly released novel by David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife. Yet her years as brigham Young's fifty-second wife and, apparently, his nineteenth living wife (the total

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