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Polygamy

Here are entered works on the practice of having more than one spouse. Works on multiple marriage as a criminal offense are entered under Bigamy.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Non-monogamous relationships
• Marriage

• Polygamy -- Arizona
• Polygamy -- Fiction
• Polygamy -- Idaho
• Polygamy -- India
• Polygamy -- Religious aspects
• Polygamy -- United States
• Polygamy -- Utah

• Multiple marriage
• Plural marriage

• The History and Philosophy of Marriage: or, Polygamy and Monogamy Compared (Boston: James Campbell, 1869), by E. N. Jencks (HTML with commentary at truthbearer.org)
• Wife No. 19, or, The Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy (Hartford et al.: Dustin, Gilman and Co., 1875), by Ann Eliza Young
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at whatismormonism.com
• "Mormon" Women's Protest: An Appeal for Freedom, Justice and Equal Rights; The Ladies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Protest Against the Tyranny and Indecency of Federal Officials in Utah, and Against Their Own Disenfranchisement Without Cause (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Co., ca. 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co., 1875), by Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• Under Our Flag: A Study of National Conditions From the Standpoint of Woman's Home Missionary Work (6th edition; New York et al.: Fleming Revell Co., c1903), by Alice M. Guernsey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities (2006), by Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office (PDF at utah.gov)

• The Mormon Wife: A Life Story of the Sacrifices, Sorrows and Sufferings of Woman (Hartford, CT: Hartford Pub. Co., 1872), by Maria Ward
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard

• Samuel D. Davis, Appellant, v. H.G. Beason, Sheriff of Oneida County, Idaho Territory: Brief for Appellant (prepared for argument in the US Supreme Court; 1889), by Franklin S. Richards, Jeremiah M. Wilson, and Samuel Shellabarger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bahubibahabada: A Discourse on the Hindu Polygamy (in Sanskrit; Kolkata: Printed at the Kavyaprakasha Press, 1872), by Tārānātha Tarkavācaspati Bhaṭṭācārya (page images at HathiTrust)

• Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), ed. by Lu Ann Faylor Snyder and Phillip A. Snyder, contrib. by Abraham Owen Woodruff, Helen May Winters Woodruff, and Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff Lambert
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Samuel D. Davis, Appellant, v. H.G. Beason, Sheriff of Oneida County, Idaho Territory: Brief for Appellant (prepared for argument in the US Supreme Court; 1889), by Franklin S. Richards, Jeremiah M. Wilson, and Samuel Shellabarger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Concept of Polygamy and the Prophet's Marriages, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), ed. by Lu Ann Faylor Snyder and Phillip A. Snyder, contrib. by Abraham Owen Woodruff, Helen May Winters Woodruff, and Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff Lambert
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Exposé of Polygamy: A Lady's Life among the Mormons (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse, ed. by Linda Wilcox DeSimone (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children (fifth edition; Chicago: J. S. Goodman and Co.; Cincinnati: C..F. Vent and Co., 1867), by C. V. Waite (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities (2006), by Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office (PDF at utah.gov)
• Letters from Exile: The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon, 1886-1888 (c1989), by Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon, ed. by Constance L. Lieber and John R. Sillito (HTML at Signature Books)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1907), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy (fourth edition; Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Co., ca. 1899), by Samuel Eberly Gross (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Adam Bede, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Adam Bede (New York: J. B. Alden, 1884), by George Eliot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Innocence (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1920), by Edith Wharton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Bartleby
• An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Border Legion, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Border Legion (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1916), by Zane Grey, illust. by Lillian Wilhelm Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Border Legion (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Zane Grey, illust. by Lillian Wilhelm Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Border Legion (illustrated with scenes from the now-lost 1924 Paramount film adaptation; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1924), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bostonians, by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• The Claverings (with illustrations from the magazine and book editions), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Delilah of the Snows (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1908), by Harold Bindloss
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Delilah of the Snows (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908), by Harold Bindloss
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues and His England (Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1900), by John Lyly, ed. by Edward Arber (searchable page images at Google; US access only)
• Felix Holt, The Radical (Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske, and Co., n.d.), by George Eliot (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Fruit of the Tree, by Edith Wharton, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The History of Sir Richard Calmady, by Lucas Malet (HTML at Indiana)
• The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Love in Excess: or, The Fatal Enquiry (fourth edition corrected; London: Printed for D. Browne Jr., 1722), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Master of Appleby (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1902), by Francis Lynde, illust. by Thure de Thulstrup (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• An Old Man's Love (2 volumes in 1; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1884), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Pipers and a Dancer (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by Stella Benson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Professor, by Charlotte Brontë
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• The Professor (with The Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869), by Charlotte Brontë, contrib. by Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Relentless City (London: W. Heinemann, 1903), by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Shadow of a Dream (based on the 1890 edition), by William Dean Howells (HTML at wsu.edu)
• Sleeping Fires, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text
• The Complete Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens: The History, Continuations and Solutions (1870-1912) (Boston: D. Estes and Co., 1913), by Charles Dickens and John Cuming Walters, illust. by Luke Fildes and Frederic George Kitton
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Hania (with other stories; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1897), by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Jeremiah Curtin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens, Completed in 1914 by W. E. C. (London: J. M. Ouseley and Son, ca. 1914), by Charles Dickens and Walter E. Crisp, ed. by Mary L. C. Grant, illust. by Zoffany Oldfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Portrait of a Lady (New York edition of 1908), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• The Portrait of a Lady (Harvard Classics edition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1917), by Henry James (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (illustrated edition; New York: G. H. Doran Co., n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illust. by Hugh Thomson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Triangle's End: A Novelette (New York: Exposition Press, c1954), by William H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burning Bright (c1950), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Le Désert de l'Amour (in French; Paris: B. Grasset, 1925), by François Mauriac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elsie Venner, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life (3 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1884), by Mrs. Oliphant
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
• Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life (London: Macmillan, 1884), by Mrs. Oliphant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• An Unsocial Socialist, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.