Fanny Stenhouse
Fanny Warn Stenhouse (12 April 1829 – 19 April 1904) was an early Mormon pioneer who defected from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and was most famous for her 1872 publication Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady’s Life among the Mormons, a record of personal experience as one of the wives of a Mormon elder during a period of more than twenty years in the mid-1800s.[2]
Fanny Stenhouse | |
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A Portrait of Stenhouse from her book "Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady’s Life among the Mormons" 1872 | |
Born | Fanny Warn April 12, 1829 Saint Helier, Jersey. |
Died | April 19, 1904 75) Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1] | (aged
Nationality | English/American |
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References
- 1904-04-19. "Mrs. Fannie Stenhouse is Dead". The Salt Lake Herald. p. 1 – via newspapers.lib.utah.edu.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- Stenhouse, T. B. H., & DeSimone, L. W. (2008). Expose´ of polygamy: A lady's life among the Mormons. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press
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