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Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge
1829–1894
A lively and sometimes controversial voice in early Utah letters, this English-born writer helped shape how the American West—and Mormon society in particular—was recorded in print. He worked as a critic, editor, playwright, and historian, leaving behind books that are still used by readers interested in nineteenth-century Utah.
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The Women of Mormondom
by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge
About the author
Born in Weymouth, Dorset, in 1829, Edward W. Tullidge emigrated to the United States after joining the Latter Day Saint movement. In Utah, he became deeply involved in literary and public life, building a career that ranged across journalism, criticism, drama, and historical writing.
Tullidge is especially remembered for his histories of Salt Lake City and Utah, along with other works on Mormon life and western settlement. His writing was ambitious and wide-ranging, and he earned a reputation as one of the most distinctive chroniclers of nineteenth-century Utah.
His religious and intellectual life was also unusually complex. Over the years he was connected with more than one branch of the Latter Day Saint movement, and that independence gave both his life and his work an often restless, searching quality. He died in Salt Lake City in 1894.