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Isabella Laisdell is Matthias’s 20-year-old daughter. She’s married to Charles Laisdell, but she joins Matthias’s cult for a short while and marries Benjamin Folger. Matthias beats Isabella, and he’s later charged with assaulting her when his cult collapses. Curiously, Isabella defends Matthias and his actions in court. When the cult collapses, Isabella resumes her married life with Charles Laisdell.
Isabella Laisdell (Matthias’s daughter) Quotes in Kingdom of Matthias
The Kingdom of Matthias quotes below are all either spoken by Isabella Laisdell (Matthias’s daughter) or refer to Isabella Laisdell (Matthias’s daughter) . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2: Robert Matthews Quotes
Despite all of his protestations of faith, [Matthews] was violating the most basic precepts of evangelical manhood, with his unsteady work habits, his self-glorification, and his domestic tyranny.
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Margaret […] stopped by the mayor’s office to find out what she could do—and learned that, in the eyes of the law, she could do very little.
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Chapter 4: The Downfall Quotes
There is too much changing of wives here […] l have a nice little woman, and I should not much like to lose her.
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In effect, the court sustained [Charles] Laisdell: every man should have his rights, and the rights of a husband over the body of his wife superseded those of her father. On that basis, the jury found Matthias guilty.
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Isabella Laisdell (Matthias’s daughter) Character Timeline in Kingdom of Matthias
The timeline below shows where the character Isabella Laisdell (Matthias’s daughter) appears in Kingdom of Matthias. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue: Two Prophets at Kirtland
...Prophet Matthias, who has recently been released from prison (he was imprisoned for assaulting his daughter), travels alone to the Mormon settlement at Kirtland. He arrives to find a crude colony...
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Chapter 3: The Kingdom
...Matthias is finally doing right by his family, so she lets her two children (20-year-old Isabella Laisdell and 11-year-old Johnny) leave with Benjamin for a visit. Isabella Laisdell is already married, but...
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Chapter 4: The Downfall
On the day that Isabella Laisdell and Benjamin are married, another member of the household—a young woman named Catherine Galloway—is miserable....
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...writes to Margaret, saying that her children are fine but that they won’t be returning. Isabella Laisdell ’s first husband (Charles Laisdell) grows worried and heads down to Hudson to investigate. Isabella...
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Charles Laisdell takes Isabella Laisdell back to Albany against her will. She doesn’t tell Margaret about her brief marriage to...
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...the world after the thaw. In the background, the prosecution obtains evidence that Matthias beat Isabella Laisdell , so that they can also charge him with assault.
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Then, the prosecution calls for Matthias to be charged with assaulting Isabella Laisdell . Isabella testifies that she went to Mount Zion willingly, and that her father (Matthias)...
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Epilogue
...several others in the cult disappear from historical record. Nobody knows what happens to them. Isabella Laisdell resumes her married life with Charles Laisdell. Margaret Matthews stays in New York and regularly...
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