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Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse
1829–1904
Best known for vivid memoirs about life in early Mormon communities, she wrote with directness, urgency, and a strong sense of personal witness. Her books helped shape how many later readers understood polygamy, faith, and dissent in 19th-century Utah.
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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 in Saint Helier, Jersey, on April 12, 1829, she is generally identified as the writer published as Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse. She and her husband, Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse, joined the Latter-day Saint movement, emigrated, and spent many years within Mormon society before eventually breaking with the church.
She became widely known for A Lady’s Life among the Mormons (1872), also issued as Exposé of Polygamy in Utah, and later for Tell It All: The Story of a Life’s Experience in Mormonism. Drawing on her own experiences, she wrote about plural marriage, domestic life, religious commitment, and disillusionment in a way that was frank and highly readable.
Fanny Stenhouse died on April 19, 1904. Today she is remembered mainly as a memoirist and controversial witness whose work remains useful to readers interested in women’s history, Mormon history, and firsthand 19th-century life writing.