Boadicea; the Mormon Wife: Life Scenes in Utah

by Alfreda Eva Bell Edited and Annotated by Michael Austin and Ardis E. Parshall   Available in ebook on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Google Play, and Apple. Also available through Amazon. Part of The Mormon Image in Literature series Download a free sample preview. Book Description: First published in 1855, Boadicea; the Mormon Wife belongs to a sub-genre of crime fiction that flourished in the Eastern United States during the 1850s. Boadicea has become increasingly important to scholars of Mormonism because it gives us a glimpse of the Mormon image in literature immediately after the Church’s public acknowledgement of plural marriage. Over the next half century, this image would be sharpened and refined by writers with different rhetorical goals: to end polygamy, to attack Mormon theology, or just to tell a highly entertaining adventure story. In Boadicea, though, we see these tropes in their infancy, through a prolific author working at break-neck speed to imagine the lives of a stra