Format:
Book
Author:
Bate, Kerry William, author.
Title:
The women / Kerry William Bate.
Publisher, Date:
Salt Like City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]
Description:
xxi, 392 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 26 cm
Summary:
"Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia. But many family sagas in the right hands can prove widely engaging, owing to inherent drama and historical relevance. They can truthfully illuminate larger matters of history, humanity, and culture. Kerry Bate proceeds on the premise that a story centering on the women of the clan could provide fresh perspective and insight. He portrays real people with well-rounded, flawed characters; builds from deep research; writes with a bit of style; and includes the rich context and detail of these lives. His main subjects are four generations of impressive women: the pioneer Catherine Campbell Steele; her daughter, Young Elizabeth, the first Mormon child born in Utah; Kate, an accomplished community leader; and Sarah, a gifted seamstress trapped in an unhappy marriage. To enter their hardscrabble lives in small southern Utah communities is to meet women who pioneered in their own modest but determined ways"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Steele, Catherine Campbell, 1816-1891 -- Family.
Women -- Utah -- Biography.
Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Utah -- Biography.
Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Biography.
Latter Day Saint families -- Utah -- Biography.
Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Biography.
Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Social conditions.
Women -- Utah -- Social conditions.
Utah -- Biography.
Utah -- Social conditions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-378) and index.
Contents:
Family Pedigree -- "Husband What is Thy Will?" : Catherine Campbell Steele -- "Convicts to Bondsman's Lands" : Catherine and Elizabeth Steele -- "Letting Posterity Come In" : Elizabeth Steele Stapley -- "Nicest Great Grand Baby You Have Got" : Catherine Steele -- "She Wanted Her Own Rights" : Sarah E. Roundy -- "Do Their Own Doing" : Sarah E. Roundy -- "She Can Do It" : Sarah E. Roundy -- "Nothing Too Refined" : Victor L. Sylvester -- "Mother of the Ward" : Sarah Catherine Stapley Roundy -- "Let's Go Over and See President Harding" : Joel J. Roundy -- "Just Getting Nothing" : Victor L. Sylvester -- "Continue to Increase" : Elizabeth Steele Stapley -- "She Only Had One Mother" : Sarah Catherine Stapley Roundy -- "That Was Money in Her Pocket" : Sarah E. Roundy Sylvester -- "The Queen Bee" : Sarah E. Roundy Sylvester -- "Stern Looking but Well-Polished" : Elizabeth Steele Stapley -- "Poverty and Progeny" : The Women.
LCCN:
2016019374
ISBN:
9781607815167
1607815168
Other Number:
953223882
System Availability:
5
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
5
Control Number:
627832
Call Number:
289.3 Bate
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
4
# System items in:
4