1856-03-03-New York Tribune-A Most Extraordinary Book

A Most Extraordinary Book

New York Tribune, 3 March 1856, pg. 1

A MOST EXTRAORDINARY BOOK.— MARIA WARD'S DISCLOSURES! Sixteenth Edition now ready of FEMALE LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS.

A narrative of many years' personal experience. By the wife of a Mormon Elder, recently from Utah. With a view of Salt Lake City. One 12mo. volume. Price $1.

CONTENTS:

Curiosity Awakened. The Mormon Meeting. The Midnight Assemblage. Arrival of Joe Smith. The Mob and its Victim. Female Heroism. Mormon Vexations. A Startling Proposition. Mr. Ward offers his Hand. The Young Wife has Strange Fears. The Doctrine of Spiritual Wives. A Mormon Heroine. The Abduction of Hannah. Ellen's Narrative. Alarming Intelligence. Arrival at the Promised Land. Startling Revelations. Mrs. Murray Discloses Secrets. Quaint Portraits of Mormon Elders. The Marriage Contract Annulled. Mr. Ward's Account of his Escape. The Regulators take Vengeance. Mrs. Bradish in a Dungeon. Death of the Prophet. Description of the New Leader. Mrs. Bradish relates her Adventures. Mode of Making New Converts. The Prophet's Favorite. Polygamy Encouraged by the Prophet. Alarmed by Indians

Women Lost or Captured. Strange Advice for a Woman to Give. The Disappointed Match-Maker. Love in the Wilderness. Courting by the Camp-Fire. A Wife's Trouble. A New Flora's Interpreter. A Scene at "Meal-Time." Hostile Indians. The Prophet Braved by a Woman. An Old Fool and a Young Flirt. Evil Results of Polygamy. The Prophet and his Victim. Debasing Tendency of Polygamy. A Father Sells his Daughters. The Self-Accuser and the Dying Husband. The Forsaken Wife. A Domestic Scene. The Hoary Lover and Youthful Victims. Mormon Hunters Kill Strange Game. The New Wife. Mormon Dinner table. A House Divided Against Itself. Mesmerism an Aid to Mormonism. Mrs. Bradish Reveals Secrets. Mysterious Disappearances. Murder of Gunison's Party. Doubts and Fears. Escape of the Author.

This book is now for the first time brought prominently before the public. Although it has been published but a few weeks, no less than ten editions have been issued. It has also been republished in England with still greater success. The London Times and London Observer each devote two columns to its review.

Says The Christian Journal and Messenger, Cincinnati:

"The book will secure unhesitating attention from all quarters—will be universally read in Europe as well as in America, and we doubt not will become one of the most important, if not the most important, instrumentality in enlightening the world on Mormonism, and in bringing to bear upon it that public opinion so necessary to drive it as an abomination from the earth. It will rouse particularly the American people."

Says The Buffalo Daily Courier:

"The work is written with delicacy, and those who expect to find in it the food for a morbid curiosity will be disappointed."

Says The Boston Daily Transcript:

"It will rival Maria Monk's Revelations in the feeling it is destined to excite. 'Female Life Among the Mormons' is no hearsay exposition, but the conscientious record of an individual experience."

DERBY & JACKSON, Publishers, New-York.

And for sale by Booksellers and Agents everywhere.

Single copies sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price.

Several thousand Agents wanted to circulate this Book in every town in the United States.