Item Detail
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24603
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2
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22
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English
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Changing Portraits of the Elect Lady : Emma Smith in Non-Mormon, RLDS, and LDS Historiography, 1933-2005
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 2011
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37
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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183-214
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This article compares Emma Hale Smiths various portrayals in biographies about her life in conjunction with the histories written of the Church between the 1930s and 2000s. In particular, the article focuses on her part in founding the Female Relief Society charity, her reaction to her husbands decision to include polygamy as a tenet of Mormonism, and her refusal to leave Illinois for Utah following Josephs death. Also discussed are her son Joseph Smith IIIs involvement in the Reorganized LDS Church, Fawn Brodies book No Man Knows My History and Joseph Smith: An American Prophet by John Henry Evans.
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