Item Detail
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32806
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0
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14
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English
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Polygamous Family Life and Geographic Isolation: The Poetry of Esther Ann Birch Bennion
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Journal of Mormon History
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January 2022
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48
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1
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65-91
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"Many women used the Woman's Exponent to explore, often in conversation with other writers, their marriage tensions and feelings of secondary status as a result of nineteenth-century Mormon polygamy. These women, and the scholars who write about them, generally discuss these relationships in terms of patriarchy-- male/female relationships. Many women, my great-great-grandmother Esther Ann Birch Bennion included, also had difficult relations with other wives, with whom they were in competition for resources, including their husband's love. Because of both practical necessity and antipathy between her and the first wife, Esther Ann pioneered away from the family's central home west of the Jordan River in the Salt Lake Valley. As she worked through her feelings concerning exclusion and hardship, her poems and letters reveal the complex relationships in a polygamous family and how geographical isolation affected those family tensions." [Author]
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