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Autobiography

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Autobiography Of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, James Goldberg, Veronica J. Anderson Jan 2018

Autobiography Of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, James Goldberg, Veronica J. Anderson

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The following transcription of Jane Manning James’s autobiography is provided in light of the essays and reviews found in this issue on the recent film Jane and Emma, so that readers can examine a major primary source on which the filmmakers relied. A transcription of this autobiography was previously published by Qunicy D. Newell. The following transcription and annotation are taken from James Goldberg’s “The Autobiography of Jane Manning James: Seven Decades of Faith and Devotion.” BYU Studies staff verified the transcription, added sections that had been omitted, and modified the annotation to fit our desired format. As in Goldberg’s …


Pansy's History: The Autobiography Of Margaret E. P. Gordon, 1866–1966, Maggie Gallup Kopp, Claudia L. Bushman Apr 2013

Pansy's History: The Autobiography Of Margaret E. P. Gordon, 1866–1966, Maggie Gallup Kopp, Claudia L. Bushman

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Margaret Gordon's memoir, composed over several decades, is notable for the author's clear voice and independent spirit, as well as her detailed accounts of frontier life, financial and family hardships, church service, and transcontinental travel. This book will provide new sources of study for historians of frontier life in northern Utah and Alberta and especially of the experience of Mormon women in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bushman has annotated her grandmother's manuscript and provides family correspondence and excerpts from Gordon's diaries to supplement the main narrative, enriching it as a potential source for scholarly inquiry and expanding a …


Hooligan, A Mormon Boyhood. By Douglas Thayer, Richard H. Cracroft Apr 2008

Hooligan, A Mormon Boyhood. By Douglas Thayer, Richard H. Cracroft

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Douglas Thayer. Hooligan, a Mormon Boyhood. Provo, Utah: Zarahemla Books, 2007.


Out Of The Black Patch: The Autobiography Of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, And Writer Noel A. Carmack And Karen Lynn Davidson, Brian D. Reeves Apr 2000

Out Of The Black Patch: The Autobiography Of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, And Writer Noel A. Carmack And Karen Lynn Davidson, Brian D. Reeves

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Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson, eds. Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer. Volume 4 in the Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999. xviii; 398 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.


The History Of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being The Autobiography Of A Mormon Missionary Widow And Pioneer S. George Ellsworth, Andrew H. Hedges Oct 1999

The History Of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being The Autobiography Of A Mormon Missionary Widow And Pioneer S. George Ellsworth, Andrew H. Hedges

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S. George Ellsworth, ed. The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1998. xxviii; 420 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.


The Autobiography Of B. H. Roberts Gary James Bergera, Ed., Davis Bitton Jul 1992

The Autobiography Of B. H. Roberts Gary James Bergera, Ed., Davis Bitton

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No abstract provided.


A Mormon Mother: An Autobiography Annie Clark Tanner, John B. Harris Jul 1974

A Mormon Mother: An Autobiography Annie Clark Tanner, John B. Harris

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No abstract provided.