I am interested in reading up on Emma Smith and other early Mormon women. Do you have any recommendations on what I should read?



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Emma Hale Smith: Mormon Enigma by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippets Avery

Please don't miss, "Brigham Young: Americans Moses", by Leonard J. Arrington.

Leonard got in trouble with the church for one paragraph he included in this wonderful book that the church looked on as negative to the church, and therefore, intolerable.

So, while he was, at one time, the official "Church Historian", after writing this book he was bumped down to a small job at BYU of no importance.

I wrote a letter to him saying how much his book had meant to me, (as up to then, no one had dared write more than a church-compliments book).

In return, he hand-wrote me a response, saying how much my letter had meant to him (as his professional career got bumped- down for having written it). Thus, he was relegated to be an out-cast at BYU, with a title that had no real meaning of importance.

As my husband used to say about injustices of which one could do little, "Grrrrrrrrrr.

You may find this book interesting and it is free on line.

https://archive.org/details/tellitallstoryof00sten

It is about a woman, her husband and some others she knew who came as converts from England I believe. Some came across the planes in one of the hand cart companies. Most of what is written about took place in early Utah and there is a lot of mention about the difficulties surrounding polygamy. The book is "Tell It All" by Fanny Stenhouse. She and her husband apostatized and left Utah.

Todd Compton - "In Sacred Loneliness" - wives of JS

Ann Eliza Webb Young - "Wife No. 19" - make sure you read the original 1876 memoir (available free online) and not the fictional book from 2008 based on her life

Yes, "Wife No. 19" by Ann Eliza Young. I read it just a few months ago and recommend it highly :)