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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. New edition. 8vo, 310, 8 pages, decorated cloth Edited by his wife, Maria Ward, and a sequel to her FEMALE LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS. Maria Ward was believed to be the pseudonym for Elizabeth Cornelia Woodcock Ferris, the wife of Benjamin G. Ferris, who was Utah Territorial Secretary between 1852-53. This widely published anti-Mormon author claimed to base her accounts on personal experience in Utah Territory. Ferris or his wife were suspected to be the author of Female Life Among the Mormons: A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience under the penname "Maria Ward". Recent scholarship has shown that they were not the author. [Flake 9558.].…