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Title	:	Mormon Mother: An Autobiography by Annie Clark Tanner
Author	:	Annie C. Tanner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 382 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1983 by Signature Books (first published June 1983)
Categories	:	Religion. Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Polyamory. Polygamy. Biography Memoir. Christianity. Lds

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Once again I have neglected logging the books I've been reading for far too long (darn that dissertation and my non-procrastinating ways). Luckily, I have a post-it note right here with all of them, and I will do my best to remember my thoughts.

[Book: A Mormon Mother] was Janell's pick for book club. It's the story of Annie Clark Tanner, as written for her children, of her life as a second wife to J.M. Tanner. It was enlightening and a bit disturbing. I know we are only getting one side of the story here, but she and her children were ill-treated by Tanner who eventually stops supporting them all together. It's only one story and as Annie Tanner says, every plural marriage relationship was different and there were no norms because relatively few practiced this principle, but I'm glad it wasn't my life.

I was so sad to miss book group when this was discussed. I'm sure it was a fantastic discussion.

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My book club in Maryland picked this book, and I finally got to discuss it with a book club nearly ten years after my initial read. I reread the book, and was struck once again by how smart Annie Clark Tanner is. She is very good at explaining how people in her part of the world understood life. It's fascinating to see how Annie changes over time and how her acceptance of certain things as "this is how it is" shifts to "this can't be right." As her son writes in the preface, Annie's life is really one of tragedy, but the bright spot is her relationship with her children.

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Original Title:	Mormon Mother: An Autobiography by Annie Clark Tanner
ISBN:	0941214311 (ISBN13: 9780941214315)
Edition Language:	English

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This is a lovely autobiography of a Mormon woman, who was born in Utah (to pioneer parents) in 1864. It gives a good picture of what life was like for early settlers here, from a first person account. Annie Tanner had a difficult life. She spent many years in hiding, since she was a plural wife and could not live with her husband under the law. Despite many differences between her day and ours, some things about being a woman and a mother are universal. I really enjoyed this book.

Annie Clark Tanner was a second wife during the end of Mormonism's days of openly practicing polygamy. Her autobiography, published by her son O.C. Tanner, chronicles her life, her struggles during her time on the polygamy underground, being flighted from town to town, staying in the homes of relatives and friends as she hid from federal agents who descended on Utah and Idaho searching for evidence of polygamy as they investigated men who practiced it. She struggled to accept the concept of

I live in Farmington Utah and this book is about a polygamist woman who also lived in Farmington. Her home is still here! For our book club we drove to her home, her husbands home (the first wife) which is across the street and then we went to the city cemetary where she is burried. She really had a tough life and I'm very glad I'll never have to experience the things she had to go through.



Memoirs of a polygamist wife in the LDS Church during the late-19th/early-20th century in Utah. Tanner is very honest about how polygamy made her feel and how it caused her and her children to suffer, but she was also very dedicated to the LDS faith and to God. A balanced, fascinating read of Utah history, faith, perseverance, self-confidence, thinking for yourself, and the deep bond a mother has for her children.

Raised in a loving and secure polygamous family as the daughter of a second wife, Annie Clark Tanner grew up to be a second wife herself, but during a time when polygamy had been forced underground. Annie is forced to raise her children on her own, with little support (financial or emotional) from her perennially absent husband. She writes with grace about the struggles that challenged, and changed, her faith.

I loved this book! I learned about where I come from! I couldn't put it down. Read it girls! I am not even a history buff. It was just a fascinating read about a woman I think I would have been friends with. She wrote her autobiography so very well. At times I didn't think I could turn the page for fear and horror of what was about to happen to her. Other times I couldn't stop. After reading this, I think I could have been a polygamist wife, but suffered much just as she did. I am SO grateful I