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Letters from Exile The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon, 1886-1888 CONSTANCE L. LIEBER and JOHN SILLITO, EDITORS Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 3 Hardback. 344 Pages. / 0-941214-77-X / $60.00 Twenty-three years her husband's junior, Martha Hughes Cannon was not the youngest wife of Angus M., a ranking church official. Nor was she a backwoods girl with few options. "Mattie" was a University of Michigan-trained physician, an outspoken suffragist, and became the first female state senator in American history. However, in 1886, rather than testify against her husband in federal court, she put her professional interests on hold and fled, with her baby, into hiding in England. Their correspondence is rich in detail regarding polygamous life in Utah and on "the underground" just prior to its abolition.
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| Constance L. Lieber, M.A., German, University of Utah, is a former cataloger at the LDS church historical department. She has published in the Utah Historical Quarterly, Sunstone magazine, and elsewhere. | |||||||
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John Sillito is the Stewart Library Archivist and a professor of libraries at Weber State University. He is the editor of History's Apprentice, Mormon Mavericks, The Wilderness of Faith, and other works. He has published in Dialogue, Utah Historical Quarterly, and elsewhere.
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