The practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield's Home, published in 1882, is both a staunchly anti-polygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy's victims.
A. Jennie Bartlett (1855¿1930) was a late nineteenth-century novelist and an advocate for antipolygamy legislation.
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Nicole Tonkovich is a professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Allotment Plot: Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance (Nebraska, 2012) and other works.
