Jennie Anderson Froiseth (December 6, 1849 – February 7, 1930)[2] was the founder of the Blue Tea, a literary club for women who were not Mormon in Utah Territory.

During the five years Froiseth spent abroad studying in Europe, authors Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, and William Makepeace Thackeray were guests of the Anderson home.

[2] After returning to the United States in 1870, she traveled to the Utah Territory with Finley, who was on special assignment for the New York Herald in the West.

During a visit to family and friends back in New York City in 1875, Froiseth attended the Sorosis Women's club with her sister Julia.

Froiseth described the Blue Tea's first year: "we did good work, had some fine programmes, necessitating not a little reading and study, and the meetings went so well that there was rarely a vacant chair".

[5] The Carrie Owen case[6] moved Froiseth and other members of the Blue Tea to protest at Independence Hall in Salt Lake City on November 7, 1878.

The society's purpose "was not to wage war against any party, sect, or person, but...to fight to the death that system which so enslaves and degrades our sex, and which robs them of so much happiness".

The eight-page monthly paper has the same biblical verse printed on every issue, "Let every man have his own wife, and let every women have her own husband" (1 Corinthians 7:2).

The Standard told the stories of women suffering in polygamous marriages and further educated the country on polygamy in the Utah Territory.

People on the east coast were heavily motivated to push women's enfranchisement in Utah Territory, believing it would put an end to polygamy.

[10] By 1870, the idea became so popular and supported in the East that Utah territorial legislature began debate over the right of women to vote.

Froiseth's daughters, Ethylene and Dorothy, became members of the all-encompassing Ladies Literary Club, which took the place of the exclusive Blue Tea.