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English
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Ann Eliza Webb Young (Denning) (1844after 1908)
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Legacy
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2009
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26
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no.1
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150-159
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"With this profile, I hope to begin the recovery of Ann Eliza Webb Young as an orator and writer for three reasons. First, she played a role in her era's important cultural circuits, such as the lecture platform. Second, her decision to cast her life story in the familiar form of the captivity narrative further expands the definition of that genre at the same time that it gives readers insight (however biased) into Mormon culture. And last, her three marriages and divorces foreground the contradictions of marriage, chastity, and womanhood during the intense nineteenth-century debates on 'the woman question.'" [Author's abstract]