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Family life among the upper middle class of China from the Boxer Rebellion in 1899 to the Japanese invasion of the 1930's.
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Manuscripts
Manuscript of a novel by Heber R. Woolley, originally written under the pseudonym of Joshua Tobin. The novel tells the story of Johnny Grant, a devout Mormon living in Salt Lake City in the second half of the nineteenth century. It opens with a sixteen-year-old Johnny (born "ten years after the first band of Mormons had come to Deseret") growing up in a polygamous family as the son of the neglectful Bishop Grant and his second wife. The novel traces Johnny's life as he tries and often fails at a variety of business endeavors, moves to Idaho, serves on a mission to England, and is made a Bishop. It also tells the parallel story of Johnny's less-devout wife, Martha. Toward the end of the novel, Johnny leaves the Church and turns to Darwin and Freud, at one point declaring that he has become an atheist. The story is set against a backdrop of debates over polygamy and tithing, and is apparently intended to criticize perceived hypocritical doctrines of the Mormon Church.
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