Item Detail
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32832
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English
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Respecting the Manning Family: Jane Manning James and Her Family in Wilton, Connecticut
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Journal of Mormon History
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January 2023
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49
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1
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69-91
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"Jane’s childhood from the age of six onwards largely was spent away from home, working for the Fitch family in the neighboring town of New Canaan. It is not known how often she was able to visit her mother, siblings, and stepfather in Wilton, nor how frequently any of them may have seen her in New Canaan. But the fact that so many of Jane’s nearest relatives followed her into Mormonism and to Nauvoo suggests that the family remained close despite their physical separation. Jane almost certainly partook in her family’s values to a significant, if ultimately unknowable, degree. It is these very values—particularly that of achieving and maintaining respectability and independence—that are hinted at in Isaac Manning’s accounts; the Mannings’ relationships with Morris Brown, John C. Wally, and the Brush family; and what is known of the nature of the family’s successive residences in Wilton. Moreover, the family’s aspirations are rendered even more poignant by Van Hoosear’s anecdotes, which hint at how white Wiltonians reacted to the Mannings in the early 1800s, and then remembered them long after their departure for Nauvoo." [Author]