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While Others Slept: Autobiography and Journal of Ellis Reynolds Shipp
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292 pages
Published
June 1st 1985
by Bookcraft Pubs
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This is the diaries and history of Ellis Reynolds Shipp. She was an LDS woman, living in a polygamous marriage in the late 1800's. She was also Utah's 2nd female doctor. She got married at age 19 to a man she loved. He eventually married three other women. She doesn't talk a lot about polygamy. She mentions that is was hard, but also that she fully believed in it. She did seem to have a good relationship with her sister wives. They took care of her 3 children when she went to Philadelphia for 3
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One's heart goes out to this woman and her courage, her perserverance, her faithfulness as she deals with death, illness, poverty, problems in human relations, plural marrriage, her husband serving a mission in England(leaving her and the children behind), her attending medical school(leaving her husband and three children home in Utah for three years), and serving 50 years as a medical doctor. Her journals and autobiography are poignant.
Story about Utah's second woman doctor. Very inspiring. Ellis Shipp would get up at 4:00 a.m. to study. She overcame great trials in her quest to become a doctor. Most of the book is taken directly from her journal. However, once she actually becomes a doctor..the book ends very abruptly. I wanted to know more about that period of her life as well.
I was fascinated by this book. Could not put it down. I found the her a very passionate person and related to her in a way I can't explain. It is always interesting to read other people's accounts and I think it will be a great discussion for our book group.
I really enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed it.
I first discovered this book while preparing a lesson for Young Women. The book is a little hard to find, but it is very inspring. It is about Ellis R. Shipp one of the first Women Doctors in Utah. I check it out every once and awhile just to get inspired to do hard things in life.
5-star story, 3.5-star writing/editing. Autobiography and journal of Ellis Shipp, a Mormon woman who, in the 1880s left her family behind (with their blessing) and went to Philadelphia to complete medical school and return to become Utah's second female doctor.
This is a terrific first person account of a 19th century polygamous wife who eventually becomes one of the first female doctors in Utah. It includes excerpts from her diaries and a later autobiography. Very moving.
Love this story. This woman is my hero. She has such amazing faith, understanding, and charity. If Ellis was a prettier name, I'd name one of my children after her.... :)
Taken from her diaries and in the language of the day. So interesting to see her life and relationships through her eyes and in the context of her time.
I learned that polygamy is a horrible system that ruins the lives of the women and children it pretends to protect.
This book is a diary of the first woman Doctor in Utah. A true story of how polygamy worked in early LDS cultural.
my mom gave me this book to read, about the first mormon women doctor, very inspirational!
Not sure I could have made it with her husband. She is a much better woman than I!
This is my great great aunt! This is interesting.
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