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English
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The bishop's second wife : The life and diary of Ellen Ricks Nibley (Utah, Mormon)
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University
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81
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Master's thesis
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Ellen Ricks Nibley was a late nineteenth century Mormon polygamist woman in Utah. Though some scholars have suggested that a sphere of domesticity defined the lives of frontier women, this thesis argued that the life and diary of Ellen Nibley reflected a heart nourished by work: within her church, with her children, in her travels, and in her writing. With a clear, elegant hand, Ellen filled the pages of a leather journal, compressing her life of 78 years into 180 pages. In her diary, Ellen unveiled a woman imbued with a spirit of pioneering that permeated her being and gave essence to her soul. In a frontier world accredited to men, Ellen Nibley recognized her place and importance within the complete panorama. Ensuring that others would know of her contribution, her triumph, her struggle, Ellen diligently recorded her story. Stating her legacy, recording her worth, she was among the number.