Faithfully, yours, Fanny Stenhouse
AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN UTAH:
THE STORY OF
A Life’s Experience in Mormonism.
An Autobiography:
BY
Mrs. T. B. H. STENHOUSE,
OF SALT LAKE CITY,
FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS THE WIFE OF A MORMON MISSIONARY AND ELDER.
With Introductory Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
INCLUDING A FULL ACCOUNT OF
THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE,
AND OF THE
LIFE, CONFESSION, AND EXECUTION OF BISHOP JOHN D. LEE.
FULLY ILLUSTRATED.
London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1880.
[All rights reserved.]
TO
MY CHILDREN;
WITH
ALL A MOTHER’S LOVE AND TENDERNESS,
THIS VOLUME,
THE
STORY OF MY LIFE’S EXPERIENCE,
IS
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
PREFACE
BY MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
In these pages, a woman, a wife and mother, speaks thesorrows and oppressions of which she has been the witnessand the victim.
It is because her sorrows and her oppressions are those ofthousands, who, suffering like her, cannot or dare not speakfor themselves, that she thus gives this history to the public.
It is no sensational story, but a plain, unvarnished tale oftruth, stranger and sadder than fiction.
Our day has seen a glorious breaking of fetters. The slave-pensof the South have become a nightmare of the past; theauction-block and whipping-post have given place to the churchand school-house; and the songs of emancipated millions areheard through our land.
May we not then hope that the hour is come to loose thebonds of a cruel slavery whose chains have cut into the veryhearts of thousands of our sisters—a slavery which debasesand degrades womanhood, motherhood, and the family?
Let every happy wife and mother who reads these linesgive her their sympathy, prayers, and aid to free her sistersfrom this degrading bondage. Let all the womanhood of thecountry stand united for them. There is a power in combinedenlightened sentiment and sympathy before which everyform of injustice and cruelty must finally go down.
May He who came to break every yoke hasten this deliverance!
Harriet Beecher Stowe.