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Author Allred, Mabel Finlayson, 1919-2005, author.

Title Plural wife : the life story of Mabel Finlayson Allred / edited by Martha Evans Bradley
Published Logan : Utah State University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations
Series Life writings of frontier women ; v. 13
Life writings of frontier women ; v. 13.
Contents Table of Contents; Illustrations; Introduction -- Martha Bradley-Evans; Preface -- Mabel Finlayson Allred; My Life Story -- Mabel Finlayson Allred; Postlude: Dedication to their parents -- The Allred children; "My Darling Mabel": Letters and poetry -- From Rulon C. Allred to Mabel Allred
Summary 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
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Subject Allred, Mabel Finlayson, 1919-2005.
Allred, Mabel Finlayson, 1919-2005
Allred, Mabel Finlayson, 1919-2005
Apostolic United Brethren -- Biography
Apostolic United Brethren
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary genre)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Bradley, Martha Evans, editor
ISBN 9780874218756
0874218756
1457184621
9781457184628
9786613854728
6613854727
1283542277
9781283542272