Froiseth Jennie (ed.) The women of Mormonism: or, The story of polygamy as told by the victims themselves

Detroit, Mich. : C.G.G. Paine, 1882. — 480 p."A few years ago, a little band of brave and devoted women in Salt Lake City, associated themselves together for the purpose of fighting an iniquitous monster which had brought thousands of their Bex to untimely and unwept graves. Some of these women had experienced personally all the horrors of the Mormon system, and when an organ for the "Ami Polygamy Society" was established, they were willing to give their experience to the world, only stipulating that, for family and personal reasons, their names should noi be made public. They were willing to make private affidavits to all the facts, (these affidavits to be held in reserve), should their veracity be questioned.These recitals, bold in the powerful language of the heart, were deemed worthy of a much larger circle of readers than the columns of a new journal afforded. Ardent friends of the cause were anxious thai the narratives should be published in booh form, in connection with other papers bearing upon the subject of polygamic Mormonism. Said these friends, "If the wives and mothers of America could only be made aware of the extent and character of this degradation of their sex, and informed of the need of their sympathy and support, the on-rushing tide of public sentiment, once set in motion, would sweep away the curse of polygamy in a single year." Consequently, the Editor of the Anti-Polygamy Standard was empowered by the writers of the different sketches to revise, re-arrange, and prepare the matter in its present form, and send it to the Women of America, hoping that thus might be set in motion a tide
which would purge our nation of this evil without such a convulsion as imperiled the national life in extirpating the other "relic of barbarism."
It will be unnecessary to add one word to the pathetic appeals contained in these pages, and, I trust, just as unnecessary to ask my countrywomen that not in vain shall sweep over the broad prairies, the cries of the "Women op Mormonism. "The Origin Of Polygamy
Polygamy Propagated
Woman's consent.
A First Wife's Revenge
A Victim Of Piuos Words and etc.