Portrait of Emmeline B. Wells

Editor, suffragist, plural wife

Emmeline B. Wells

1828–1921

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Utah Polygamy and the Manifesto

Editor, suffragist, plural wife

Wells edited the Woman's Exponent through the whole antipolygamy campaign, arguing in print that plural marriage enlarged rather than diminished women. She lobbied Congress and the National Woman Suffrage Association against disfranchisement. Her private diaries record a very different experience of the same marriage, including her husband's indifference.

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