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English
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Mary Ann Burnham Freeze : Utah Evangelist
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University of Utah
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Ph.D. diss.
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"The rhetorical activity of prominent nineteenth-century Utah women has been an unstudied subject, although other aspects of their lives and leadership have been written about in recent years. The general purpose of this study was to give insight into the rhetorical role of these women, and the subsequent influences of that role, as it directly or indirectly aided in the resolution of the issues of nineteenth-century Utah. The procedure was to examine the rhetoric and evangelism of a prominent and representative nineteenth-century Utah woman, Mary Ann Burnham Freeze, to discover specifically: (1) What were the issues with which women were concerned in frontier Utah? (2) To what extent were they involved in the discussion of these issues? (3) What rhetorical strategies did they utilize to bring about the resolution of the issues? (4) What impact did they have on their peers, both men and women, with respect to the issues? (5) What impact, if any, did they have on frontier Utah history? and (6) To what extent was Mary Freeze representative of the other Utah women with whom she was speaking, writing, and associating in church leadership and various community activities? Mrs. Freeze was typical of her peers with whom she served and associated. She was doing as they were doing. She was a polygamous wife and mother, an active leader in the church and community, an articulate speaker for those organizations she served and the causes in which she believed, and a prolific writer and poetess. She associated with prominent women at all levels of the church and community. These women shared their lives and their thoughts with one another. The journals and biographies of such women as Susa Young Gates, Emmeline B. Wells, Ruth May Fox, Margaret and Ellis Shipp, and other contemporaries, portrayed women whose lives and activities were much the same as those of Mary Freeze. To the extent the above statements were true, examination of the rhetoric of Mrs. Freeze provided insight into the roles of these early Utah women, and the evangelistic influence they exerted on the issues they identified as pertinent to them and their society." [Author's abstract]