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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 21: polygamy. (search)
ter Belinda; besides his dead queen, Sister Carrie, who had been sealed to him for the eternal worlds. Fanny was of English birth, a clever, handsome woman, who had given Belinda to her husband for his second wife. Belinda came of saintly race, being a daughter of Parley Pratt, the first apostle, called the Archer of Paradise, and of Belinda Pratt, the foremost female advocate of polygamy. She was an orphan when the Elder took her; Pratt, her father, having been killed in Arkansas by Hector McLean, a gentleman whose wife the Mormon apostle had converted and carried off. Not satisfied with these young and comely women, Stenhouse was looking for another wife ; and Sister Fanny tried her best to make me think he was doing right in following the celestial law. To-day she puts into my hands a volume written by her pen, in which plurality of wives is pictured from a Gentile point of view. The fall of these conspicuous advocates of plurality is due to the friction caused by that celes