{"product_id":"elder-northfields-home-a-jennie-bartlett-9780803271845","title":"Elder Northfield's Home: Or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar","description":"The practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. \u003ci\u003eElder Northfield's Home\u003c\/i\u003e, published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882, is both a staunchly antipolygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy's victims. Her book traces the fate of a virtuous and educated English immigrant woman, Marion Wescott, who marries a Mormon elder, Henry Northfield. Shocked when her husband violates his promise not to take a second wife, Marion attempts to flee during the night, toddler son in her arms and pulling her worldly possessions in his toy wagon. She returns to her husband, however, and the balance of the novel traces the effects of polygamy on Marion, Henry, and their children; their eventual rejection of plural marriage; and their return to a normal and healthy family structure.\u003cbr\u003e Nicole Tonkovich's critical introduction includes both historical contextualization and comments on selected primary documents, providing a broader look at the general public's reception of the practice of polygamy in the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Jennie Bartlett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803271840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803271845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d","brand":"A. Jennie Bartlett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48216507547903,"sku":"9780803271845","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01d3054f-8c55-4ac6-844d-75a659a1de9f.jpg?v=1771991467","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/elder-northfields-home-a-jennie-bartlett-9780803271845","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}