"Audacious Women: Early British Mormon Immigrants"

I found a new book to explore when I get some free time.  It's called "Audacious Women: Early British Mormon Immigrants"

Of course I like the female take -- about women, written by a female author, who of course is likely motivated to write the thing based on her own family background -- kind of like why I am writing this thing.

Also, while reading it, I realized that the collective visage of the Mormon woman was much disparaged during the Victorian era.  I'm getting the impression that persons like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Mark Twain were perpetuating the idea that my feminine ancestors were hideous ogres.  Which is funny because I previously read blogger Joanna Brooks refuting a more current notion that all Mormon women are smokin' hot.  I believe she said something along the lines of -- 'Anyone who thinks all Mormons are beautiful hasn't met enough Mormons.'

I do want to know more about these women who left their native land and what the impetus was for doing so.  The review gets the impression that others of British society would have looked down on them for leaving and joining a new religion that was getting some bad press.

I'm including some photos of my British ancestresses that I think are quite fetching, as well as one of my husband's Irish grandmothers.  I have some other photos which are much less flattering to other family members, and I won't be including them in this post.  Out of respect for the dead, really.  Also, I really hate it when people tag unflattering pictures of me on Facebook, and as a living person I have some control over what others will see.  These women do not.