In Retrospect: Autobiography of Amy Brown Lyman

Lyman, Amy Brown

Verlag: General Board of Relief Society, Salt Lake City, UT, 1945

Beschreibung

167pp. Duodecimo [19 cm]. Blue wraps, with silver stamping on the front wrap. Binding a bit loose, with crack in the textblock at page 70. Scuffing to wraps at spine. Spot of soiling on rear cover. Born in 1872 to a polygamist family in the Utah territory, the intelligent and academically inclined Amy Brown met her future husband, Richard Lyman, at Brigham Young Academy (the predecessor to BYU). They married in 1896, after the issue of the 1890 Manifesto (though before the more uncompromising 1904 Second Manifesto). Both rose quickly in church leadership ranks. Amy become the eighth general president of the Relief Society, while her husband became an apostle. In 1943, it was discovered that Richard had been in a relationship with Anna Jacobsen Hegsted since 1925. The two had long been cohabitating, and had exchanged secret vows. Richard considered the union plural marriage, though church leadership disagreed. He was excommunicated later that year, while Amy requested to step down from her role as Relief Society president. This autobiography, published two years after her husband's excommunication, does not appear to address the controversy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 66712

Bibliografische Details

Titel: In Retrospect: Autobiography of Amy Brown ...

Verlag: General Board of Relief Society, Salt Lake City, UT

Erscheinungsdatum: 1945

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First edition.