Lately I've been reading The Viper on the Hearth, Terryl L. Givens' fascinating study of nineteenth-century anti-Mormon fiction. I thought it might be helpful to come up with a list of the digitized anti-Mormon novels available on the Internet Archive, a good go-to place for nineteenth-century Mormonalia.
Here are the books I found:
Belisle, Orvilla S.
---. The Prophets: Or, Mormonism Unveiled
(1855)
---. In the Grip of the Mormons
(ca. 1919) [This seems to be a reprint of The
Prophets]
Bell, Alfreda Eva.
---. Boadicea, the Mormon
Wife (1855)
Benoit, Pierre.
---. Salt Lake; A Novel
(1922) [Translation from French]
Clark, Charles Heber.
---. Tragedy of
Thompson Dunbar, A Tale of Salt Lake
(1879)
Curwood, James Oliver.
---. The Courage of
Captain Plum (1908)
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.
---. A Study in Scarlet
(1887)
Gash, Abram Dale
---. The False Star; A Tale of the Occident
(1899)
Gilchrist, Rosetta Luce.
---. Apples of Sodom; A
Story of Mormon Life (1883)
Grey, Zane.
---. Riders of the
Purple Sage (1912)
Hannett, Arthur Thomas.
---. In the Days of Brigham Young
(ca. 1914)
Henry, Alfred H.
---. By Order of the
Prophet; A Tale of Utah (1902)
Hudson, Mary W.
---. Esther the Gentile
(1888)
Kerr, Alvah Milton.
---. Trean; or, The Mormon’s
Daughter (1889)
Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn.
---. Love in the Backwoods: Two Mormons from
Muddlety, Alfred's Wife (1897)
Paddock, Mrs. A. G. (Cornelia).
---. In the Toils; or Martyrs of
the Latter Days (1879)
---. The Fate of Madam La
Tour (1881)
Richards, Robert
---. The Californian Crusoe; or, The lost treasure
found. A tale of Mormonism (1858)
Riddle, A. G.
---. The Portrait : A Romance of the Cuyahoga Valley
(1874)
Spencer, Mrs. George E.
---. Salt-Lake Fruit : A Latter-day Romance
(1884)
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
---. The Dynamiter (1925)
Switzer, Jeanie Bartlett.
---. Elder Northfield’s
Home; or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar. A Story of Territorial Days in Utah
(ca. 1894)
Walsh, Marie A. (“Sandette”)
---. My Queen. A Romance
of the Great Salt Lake (1878)
Wilson, Harry Leon.
---. The Lions of the Lord, A Tale of the Old West (1903)
NOTE: Absent from this list are the many anti-Mormon poems, memoirs, and histories written in the nineteenth century and early twentieth. Also absent are anti-Mormon novels not digitized on the Internet Archive.
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