Author: Maurine WhipplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The Giant Joshua by Maurine Whipple
Author: Maurine WhippleThe Giant Joshua
Author: Maurine WhipplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Story of the Dixie Religious Mission in the Utah desert, and of a high-spirited girl who becomes a Mormon's third wife.
Maurine Whipple and Her Giant Joshua
Author: Veda HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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The Giant Joshua
Author: Brian Capener“Swell Suffering”
Author: Veda Tebbs HalePublisher: Greg Kofford Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
2012 Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association Maurine Whipple, author of what some critics consider Mormonism greatest novel, The Giant Joshua, is an enigma. Her prize-winning novel has never been out of print, and its portrayal of the founding of St. George draws on her own family history to produce its unforgettable and candid portrait of plural marriage's challenges along with its winsome, gallant, and sparkling heroine Clory McIntyre. Yet Maurine's life is full of contradictions and unanswered questions. Why did she never finish her projected trilogy after writing what she considered to be its first volume? Why, when she considered herself an outcast from St. George society, did she never leave it for longer than a few months? What happened to her dreams of romantic love, marriage, and a family? Given the on-going popularity of The Giant Joshua and at least three attempts to put the story on the screen, why has a movie never been made? For extended periods of her life, she was paralyzed by personal suffering, yet did her greatest creative achievement emerge from that pain? Veda Tebbs Hale, a personal friend of the paradoxical novelist, answers these questions with sympathy and tact, nailing each insight down with thorough research in Whipple's vast but under-utilized collected papers. By her mastery of Whipple’s letters, diaries, exhaustive oral histories, and draft after draft of unrealized dreams, Veda Hale bring a novelist's life into focus. Exasperating, dazzlingly creative, courageous, brave, frequently misguided, Maurine Whipple emerges in this biography as an unforgettable character in her own right.
Swell Suffering
Author: Veda HalePublisher: Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781589581241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Whipple, author of what some critics consider Mormonism's greatest novel, "The Giant Joshua, " is an enigma. Her prize-winning novel has never been out of print, and its portrayal of the founding of St. George draws on her own family history to produce its unforgettable and candid portrait of plural marriage's challenges. Hale, a personal friend, chronicles Whipple's life, nailing each insight down with thorough research in her vast but underutilized collected papers. 482 pp.
Outside America
Author: Dan MoosPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A new study of those excluded from the national narrative of the West. Dan Moos challenges both traditional and revisionist perspectives in his exploration of the role of the mythology of the American West in the creation of a national identity. While Moos concurs with contemporary scholars who note that the myths of the American West depended in part upon the exclusion of certain groups - African Americans, Native Americans, and Mormons - he notes that many scholars, in their eagerness to identify and validate such excluded positions, have given short shrift to the cultural power of the myths they seek to debunk. That cultural power was such, Moos notes, that these disenfranchised groups themselves sought to harness it to their own ends through the active appropriation of the terms of those myths in advocating for their own inclusion in the national narrative. that, because the construction of American culture was never designed to accommodate these outsiders, their writings display a division between their imagined place in the narrative of the nation and their effacement within the real West marked by intolerance and inequality.
Maurine Whipple Photograph Collection
Author: Maurine WhipplePublisher:
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Category : Kearns (Utah)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This collection contains photographs covering the life of Maurine Whipple and the photos included in her books, "The Giant Joshua" and "This is the Place: Utah." It also includes photographs of Aspen Grove, Mt. Timpanogos, Zion National Park, St. George (Utah), De Mille Polygamy House, Bingham Copper Mine, Boston (Mass.), the Armed Service in Kearns (Utah), the St. George Temple and Tabernacle, the Salt Lake Temple and Tabernacle, and Joseph Smith.
Great Joshua
Author: Maurine WhipplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
Correspondence
Author: Maurine WhipplePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Letters written to Marguerite Sinclair, the secretary at the Utah State Historical Society, concerning background material for Miss Whipple's novel "The Giant Joshua."