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Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse
1829–1904
Best known for a vivid memoir of life in early Mormon polygamy, this Scottish-born writer turned personal experience into one of the 19th century’s most talked-about insider accounts. Her work still stands out for its direct voice and sharp sense of witness.
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An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
by Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse
About the author
Born Fanny Warn on April 12, 1829, she later became widely known in print as Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse. She and her husband, Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse, were early converts to the Latter-day Saint movement, and their years as missionaries and settlers in Utah shaped the experiences she would eventually write about.
She is best remembered for Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady’s Life among the Mormons and Tell It All: The Story of a Life’s Experience in Mormonism, books that drew on her own life to describe plural marriage and church society from an insider’s point of view. After breaking with the LDS Church, she and her husband became outspoken critics, and her memoirs reached a wide readership.
Fanny Stenhouse died on April 19, 1904. Today she is remembered as a memoirist and controversial witness whose writing offers a personal window into religion, migration, marriage, and dissent in the American West.