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English
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Courtship and Romance in Utah Territory : Doing Away with 'The Gentile Custom of Sparkification'
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The Eighth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium : A Sesquicentennial Look at Church History
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Provo, UT
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Religious Instruction, Brigham Young University and Church Educational System
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211-23
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Lynn defines 'sparkification' as the typically childish courtship most young couples go through. She shows that for plural marriages this was usually not experienced, due to the age and respectability of the man. Lynn also discussed the ideas of romantic love prevlent in American society at the time, and how plural wives experienced a different kind of love in their marriages.