A House Full of Females

Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

A stunning and sure to be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen 19th-century diaries, letters, albums, minute books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never before told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage", whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, 50 years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to gives us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism" - the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.

©2017 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Pronunciation Counts

Interesting, however reader mispronounced the Book of Mormon names throughout the reading. Nephi is not Neff - ee.

Women's Voices!!

This was a fascinating book which held so much history that is often not told. I had ancestors who lived polygamy and diary entries show how distasteful it was to them. I enjoyed the strength of many of the women who were willing to stand for their own needs and disgusted for those who had been taken advantage of.

Mispronunciations.

I thought this book had some very interesting information in it— somewhat one sided, but interesting, and compelling, nonetheless. However, the narrator’s mispronunciations of several words, over and over again was very distracting. I was surprised at this, as all the other Audible books I’ve listened to have had very high quality narrations.

Readers should learn proper pronunciations... she butchers several words and names..

The reader does not pronounce several names of people and places, both historical and current correctly...

Great content - poor reading

The book has some great historical insight into the women's perspectives during the polygamy period. However, the book is repleat with names out of the Book of Mormon. The reader mis-annunciates literally every Book of Mormon name other than "mormon". She needed to do even 10 minutes of research before annunciating the names.