Item Detail
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26016
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10
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30
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English
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Runaway Wives, 1830-1860
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Journal of Mormon History
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April 2016
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42
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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1-26
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Stories about women who fled Mormonism fit easily into classic plots. Lesser known are stories about women who ran away from legal husbands in order to become plural wives. To understand those stories requires giving attention to a different genre of runaway tales. In the nineteenth century, some writers began to shift from dangers outside the household to those within. Stories about wives fleeing the wrath of drunken or abusive husbands entered the pages of novels; divorce petitions; and temperance, health reform, and women's rights literature. Although such tales became a staple of anti-Mormon campaigns, Latter-day Saints had equally harrowing tales about being rescued from such a fate by the Saints. Their stories help us situate runaway tales into a broader history of women, women's rights, and the law. [From the article]
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