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Compton, Todd M.

In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

Salt Lake City

Signature Books

1997

[1998 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]

Kingsley, Sarah Maryetta
Kimball, Sarah Lawrence
Johnson, Nancy Marinda
Fuller, Desdemona
Davis, Elizabeth
Award Winner
Smith, Joseph, Jr., plural marriage
Plural marriage, biographical examples
Young, Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
Young, Olive Grey Frost
Young, Fanny
Woodworth, Flora Ann
Winchester, Nancy Maria
Whitney, Sarah Ann
Whitney, Helen Mar Kimball
Vose, Ruth Daggett
Sessions, Sylvia Porter
Sessions, Patty Bartlett
Richards, Rhoda
McBride, Martha
Lyman, Eliza Maria Partridge
Lott, Melissa
Lightner, Mary Elizabeth Rollins
Kimball, Presendia Lathrop Huntington Buell
Kimball, Lucy Walker
Johnson, Delcena Diadamia
Johnson, Almera Woodward
Harris, Lucinda Pendleton Morgan
Ells, Hannah S.
Plural marriage
Cowles, Elvira
Coolbrith, Agnes Moulton
Biographies, women, 19th century (articles or chapters)
Snow, Eliza Roxcy, biographies
Alger, Fanny
Young, Maria Lawrence
Young, Louisa Beaman
Young, Emily Dow Partridge

A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
"A Dogged Resolve" : The Doctrine and Decline of Mormon Plural Marriage, 1841–1890
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
All, Now, and Yet : Revelation and the Restoration Churches' Response to the Social Changes of the Twentieth Century
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
A Matter of Many Wives: Joseph Smith's Courting in Secret Nauvoo
A Matter of Principle : Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy, Children, and Human Rights Debates
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Response to Grant Palmer's "Sexual Allegations against Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Polygamy in Nauvoo"
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
A Uniform and Common Recollection : Joseph Smith's Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory, 1852-2002
A Wary Heart Becomes "Fixed Unalterably" : Eliza R. Snow's Conversion to Mormonism
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Beneath, Below, Under: Joseph Smith's Queen Kahtoumun, Summer 1835
Between Pulpit and Pew : The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore
Beyond Black Muslims and Reorganized Mormons : The Transformation of Two New Religious Movements in America
Biographers and the Mormon "Prophet Puzzle" : 1974 to 2004
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (Mormonism)
Critiquing the Critics of Joseph Smith
Death to Seducers! Examples of Latter-day Saint-led Extralegal Justice in Historical Context
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
"Denying the Undeniable" : Examining Early Mormon Polygamy Renunciations
Documents, Volume 4: April 1834-September 1835
Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Early Mormon Adoption Theology and the Mechanics of Salvation
Early Mormon Marriage, Family, and Networks of Kinship : Begets and horizontal Genealogy in the Case of the Later Cutlerites at Nauvoo
Early Mormon Patriarchy and the Paradoxes of Democratic Religiosity in Jacksonian America
Emily Dow Partridge Smith Young on the Witness Stand : Recollections of a Plural Wife
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Ex-Mormon Narratives and Pastoral Apologetics
Expose? of Polygamy : A Lady's Life Among the Mormons
Faithful Transgressions in the American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts
Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith's Pre-Nauvoo Reputation
First Mother of Mormonism : Lucy Mack Smith and Gendered Politics, 1844-1845
Forging a Dream : The Fabrication of Mosiah Hancock's Premortal Vision
Four Zinas : A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier
Framing Eternal Sexual Identity in a Shifting Cultural Landscape
From Doctor to Disciple : Willard Richard's Journey to Mormonism
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857–1907
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857-1907
Gathering the Remnants : Establishing the RLDS Church in Southwestern Iowa
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
"Guilty of Such Folly?" : Accusations of Adultery and Polygamy Against Oliver Cowdrey
Heathen in Our Fair Land' : Presbyterian Women Missionaries in Utah, 1870-90
"He Had No Other Wife but Me" : Emma Hale Smith and Mormon Polygamy
Holy Races : Race in the Formation of Mormonism and the Nation of Islam
Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series
How Did Joseph Smith Become a Seer? Insights from the John Alger First Vision Account
"I Cannot Refrain from Testifying" : Edith Mary Turpin's Observations about Mormonism and Plural Marriage
“I Could Love Them All” : Nauvoo Polygamy in the Marriage of Willard and Jennetta Richards
Identifying Joseph Smith's Plural Wives
'I'd Rather Have Some Roasting Ears' : The Peregrinations of Geroge Armstrong Hicks
'Illicit Intercourse,' Plural Marriage, and the Nauvoo Stake High Council, 1840-1844
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In Sacred Loneliness-- An Introduction and Some RLDS Portraits
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
John C. Bennett and Joseph Smith's Polygamy : Addressing the Question of Reliability
John C. Bennett, Joseph Smith, and the Beginnings of Mormon Plural Marriage in Nauvoo
Joseph Bates Noble : Polygamy and the Temple Lot Case
Joseph Smith as Guardian : The Lawrence Estate Case
Joseph Smith for President : The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
Joseph Smith, Jr., and 'The Notorious Case of Aaron Lyon' : Evidence of Earlier Doctrinal Development of Salvation for the Dead and a Trigger for the Practice of Polygamy
Joseph Smith : Monogamist or Polygamist?
Joseph Smith, Plural Marriage, and Kinship
Joseph Smith's Ambiguous Legacy : Gender, Race, and Ethnicity as Dynamics for Schism Within Mormonism after 1844
Joseph Smith's Personal Polygamy
Joseph Smith's Plural Wives after the Martyrdom
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Keeping a Secret : Freemasonry, Polygamy, and the Nauvoo Relief Society, 1842-44
Keeping the Sacred : Structured Silence in the Enactment of Priesthood Authority, Gendered Worship, and Sacramental Kinship in Mormonism
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism
Layered Lives : Boston Mormons and the Spatial Contexts of Conversion
Led Just Right : The Theological Development of Vertical Latter-day Saint Sealings through 1894
Let's Talk About Polygamy
Letters on Mormon Polygamy and Progeny : Eliza R. Snow and Martin Luther Holbrook, 1866-1869
Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Memory as Evidence : Dating Joseph Smith's Plural Marriages to Louisa Beaman, Zina Jacobs, and Presendia Buell
Monogamy Underground : The Burial of Mormon Plural Marriage in the Graves of Joseph and Emma Smith
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Hermeneutics: Five Approaches to the Bible by the LDS Church
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism and the Movies
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness
National Culture, Personality, and Theocracy in the Early Mormon Culture of Violence
Navigating Mormonism's Gendered Theology and Practice : Mormon Women in a Global Context
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
"No True Religion without True Science" : Science and the Construction of Mormon
Whiteness
No Weapon Shall Prosper : New Light on Sensitive Issues
Oliver Cowdery : Scribe, Elder, Witness : Essays from BYU Studies and FARMS
On the "Underground" : What the Mormon "Yes on 8" Campaign Reveals About the Future of Mormons in American Political Life
Parallel Paths : LDS General Conference and Mormon History
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Perspectives on Latter-day Saints Names and Naming: Names, Identity, and Belief
Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
Plural Accidents : Writing In Sacred Loneliness
Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
Polygamy : The Mormon Enigma
Preserving the Record and Memory of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842-92
Queer Mormon Theology: An Introduction
Queer Polygamy
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Raising The Dead, Mormons, Evangelicals, and Miracles in America
Reconstructing the Y-Chromosome of Joseph Smith : Genealogical Applications
Reconstructing the Y-Chromosome of Joseph Smith Jr. : Genealogical Applications
Remembering Polygamy : The RLDS Church and American Spiritual Transformaitons in the Late Twentieth Century
'Remember Me in My Affliction' : Louisa Beaman and Eliza R. Snow Letters, 1849
Resolving the Paternities of Oliver Buell and Mosiah L. Hancock through DNA
Sacred Borders : Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America
Scattering of the Saints : Schism within Mormonism
Scottish Shepherd : The Life and Times of John Murray Murdoch, Utah Pioneer
Storming the Nation : The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
Stretching to Find the Negative: Gary Bergera's Review of Joseph Smith's Polygamy : History and Theology
Studying Sikhs and meeting mormons : A comparative study of women in two of the newest world religions
Susa Young Gates: Daughter of Mormonism
Telling Latter-Day Saint Lives : The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography
Telling the Nauvoo Story
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
That "Same Old Question of Polygamy and Polygamous Living" : Some Recent Findings Regarding Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mormon Polygamy
The Adam-God Doctrine and the Persistence of Polygamy
The Anointed Quorum in Nauvoo 1842-45
The Brigham Young Farm House
The Conjugal Relationships of Parley P. Pratt as Portrayed in His Autobiography
The Crisis of Mormon Christology : History, Progress, and Protestantism, 1880-1930
The Culture of Violence in Joseph Smith’s Mormonism
The David H. Morris Collection
The Development of Early Latter-day Saint Marriage Rites, 1831-53
The Earliest Eternal Sealings for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead
The Forgotten Story of Nauvoo Celestial Marriage
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy : Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Vol. 12: March 1843 - July 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 11 : September 1842–February 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 6 : February 1838–August 1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Histories. Volume 2, Assigned Histories, 1831-1847
The Joseph Smith-Sylvia Sessions Plural Sealing : Polyandry or Polygyny?
The Journals of George Q. Cannon : Hawaiian Mission, 1850-1854
The Journey of a People : The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844
The Journey West : The Mormon Pioneer Journals of Horace K. Whitney with Insights by Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
The Last Called Mormon Colonization: Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
The Life of Dr. Frederick G. Williams :
Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Maverick Historian : A Conversation with Stanley B. Kimball
The Morley Settlement in Illinois, 1839-1846 : Tribe and Clan in a Nauvoo Mormon Community
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Orphan Child : Priscilla Mogridge Smith Lowry Williams Staines (1823-1899)
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Polygamous Wives Writing Club : From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
"The Private Character of the Man Who Bore That Testimony" : Oliver Cowdery and His Critics
"The Redemption of Zion Must Needs Come by Power" : Insights into the Camp of Israel Expedition, 1834
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks
The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God
The Writings of Oliver Olney : April 1842 to February 1843 — Nauvoo, Illinois
"This Institution Is a Good One" : The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 17 March 1842 to 16 March 1844
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
Vox Joseph Vox Dei : Regarding Some of the Moral and Ethical Aspects of Joseph Smtih's Practice of Plural Marriage
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
Where Mormonism Meets Biblical Christianity Face to Face : An A to Z Doctrinal Comparative between Mormonism and Biblical Christianity
Why the Prophet is a Puzzle : The Challenges of Using Psychological Perspectives to Understand the Character and Motivation of Joseph Smith, Jr.
William Vorhease and the Murder of Joseph Smith
Wives in Wagons : Winter Quarters and the Trek West
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Women in Utah History : Paradigm or Paradox?
Women's Popular Literature as Theological Discourse : A Mormon Case Study, 1880-1920
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity
Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon
Zion : The Progressive Roots of Mormon Correlation