PLURAL WIFE (Life Writings of Frontier Women): The Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred - Hardcover

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9780874218749: PLURAL WIFE (Life Writings of Frontier Women): The Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred

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ISBN 10: 0874218748 ISBN 13: 9780874218749

Publisher: Gazelle, 2012

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Mabel Finlayson Allred was a wife of Rulon Allred, leader of the Apostolic United Brethren, one of the major groups of fundamentalist Mormons who, since about the 1930s, have practiced plural marriage as separatists from the mainstream Latter-day Saints Church.
Mabel's autobiography maintains a mood of everyday normalcy strikingly in contrast with the stress of the ostracized life she was living. Her cheerful tone, expressive of her wish to live simply and gracefully in this world, is tempered by more somber descriptions of her personal struggle with clinical depression, of Rulon Allred's inner struggles, of tensions with the law and with Allred's fundamentalist colleagues, and ultimately by her forthright account of his assassination.
Emerging from this unique narrative is the portrait of a woman buoyed by faith in both her religion and her husband, a window into the interior life of a woman seeking a resilient simplicity in an uncommonly challenging life.
Plural Wife, conntextualized by Martha Bradley's introduction, gives us insight into Mabel's experience of history during an important period of the 20th century and advances our understanding of life ways of 20th century polygamy and the growth of the fundamentalist movement.

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Review:

"While this book opens a window into the practices of fundamentalists for any student of Utah or LDS history, it is far more a doorway into the thoughts and feelings of a woman who followed her own conscience but who also made insightful observations of others with both clarity and charity."
--Colleen Whitley, Utah Historical Quarterly

About the Author:

Martha Sonntag Bradley is a professor in the College of Architecture and Planning and director of the Honors Program at the University of Utah, where she has received the Distinguished Teaching Award, the Student Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Bennion Center Service Learning Professorship, and the honorary title of "University Professor, 1999-2000." She taught previously in the history department at Brigham Young University, where she received a Teaching Excellence Award. She has served as president of the Mormon History Association and co-editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Her many books include Kidnapped from that Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists, Four Zinas: A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier, and A History of Kane County.

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