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Hall, Dave

A Faded Legacy : Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959

Salt Lake City, UT

University of Utah Press

2015

[2016 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best First Book]

To her contemporaries Amy Brown Lyman was a leader, admired for her dynamic personality, her inspiring public addresses, and especially for her remarkable vision of what Mormon women in the Relief Society could achieve. Yet today her name is barely known. This volume brings her work to light, showing how the accomplishments of Lyman and her peers benefitted their own and subsequent generations.

Placing Lyman’s story within a local and national context, award-winning author Dave Hall examines the roots and trajectory of Mormon women’s activism. Born into a polygamist family, Lyman entered the larger sphere of public life at the time when the practice of polygamy was ending and Mormonism had begun assimilating mainstream trends. The book follows her life as she prepared for a career, married, and sought meaning in a rapidly changing society. It recounts her involvement in the Relief Society, the Mormon women's charity group that she led for many years and sought to transform into a force for social welfare, and it considers the influence of her connections with national and international women's organizations. The final period of Lyman's life, in which she resigned from the Relief Society amidst personal tragedy, offers insight into the reasons Mormon women abandoned their activist heritage for a more conservative role, a stance that is again evolving.

Award Winner
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Brown, Amy Lyman
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Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
The Role of Susa Young Gates and Leah Dunford Widtsoe in the Historical Development of the Priesthood/Motherhood Model
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Women of Faith in the Latter Days : Volume 4, 1871-1900

Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
'Provoking the Brethren to Good Works' : Susa Young Gates, the Relief Society, and Genealogy
'Sisterhood and Sociability' : The Utah Women's Press Club, 1891-1928
'Strength in Our Union' : The Making of Mormon Sisterhood
'The Power of Combination' : Emmeline B. Wells and the National and International Councils of Women
A Centenary of Relief Society
A Crossroads for Mormon Women : Amy Brown Lyman, J. Reuben Clark, and the Decline of Organized Women's Activism in the Relief Society
A History of the Relief Society Magazine, 1914-1970
A Lighter of Lamps : The Life Story of Alice Louise Reynolds
A Mormon Mother : An Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
A Mormon Woman in Victorian America
A Sermon in the Desert : Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah
Alice Merrill Horne, Art Promoter and Early Utah Legislator
Amy Brown Lyman : Mother of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Child Placement Agency
An Advocate for Women : the Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920
An Experiment in Progressive Legislation : The Granting of Woman Suffrage in Utah in 1870
Autobiography of Pioneer John Brown 1820-1896
Battle for the Ballot : Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
Between Revivalism and the Social Gospel : The Latter-day Saint Social Advisory Committee, 1916-1922
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Changing Relief Society Charity to Make Way for Welfare, 1930-1944
Community Development in the American West : Past and Present Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Frontiers
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon : Doctor, Wife, Legislator, Exile
Elder Statesman : A Biography of J. Reuben Clark
Emmeline B. Wells : 'Am I Not a Woman and a Sister'?
Empowerment and Mormon Women's Publications
Establishing Zion : The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Expectations Westward : The Mormons and the Emigration of Their British Converts in the Nineteenth Century
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
From Frontier Activism to Neo-Victorian Domesticity : Mormon Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
From Home Service to Social Service : Amy Brown Lyman and the Development of Social Work in the LDS Church
Grain Storage : The Balance of Power between Priesthood Authority and Relief Society Autonomy
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of Utah
History of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from November 1869 to June 1910
Homeward to Zion : The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia
In Retrospect : Autobiography of Amy Brown Lyman
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Modern Lysistratas : Mormon Women in the International Peace Movement, 1899-1939
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Polygamous Families : Life in the Principle
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Women and the Right to Wage Work
Mormon Women, Other Women : Paradoxes and Challenges
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormons and Gentiles : A History of Salt Lake City
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
New Views of Mormon History : A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Polygamy and Women's Rights : Nineteenth-Century Mormon Female Activism
Polygamy and the Frontier : Mormon
Women in Early Utah
Preserving the Record and Memory of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842-92
Promises Made to the Fathers : Mormon Covenant Organization
Protect the Children : Child Labor in Utah, 1880-1920
Relations of Rescue : The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
Relief Society Birth and Death Rituals : Women at the Gates of Mortality
Relief Society Grain Storage Program, 1876-1940
Representative Women of Deseret : A Book of Biographical Sketches to Accompany the Picture Bearing the Title
Resolving Differences / Achieving Unity : Lessons from the History of the Relief Society
Schism in the Sisterhood : Mormon Women and Partisan Politics, 1890-1900
Sister Saints
Sister-Wives and Suffragists : Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage, 1870-1896
Sisters and Little Saints : One Hundred Years of Primary
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Sisters under the Skin : Utah's Mormon and Non-Mormon Women and Their Publications
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
The "Young Woman's Journal" and Its Stories : Gender and Generations in 1890s Mormondom
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The 'Leading Sisters' : A Female Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Mormon Society
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Village : A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement
The Mormon-Suffrage Relationship : Personal and Political Quandaries
The Mormons' War on Poverty : A History of LDS Welfare 1830-1990
The National Women's Relief Society and the U.S. Sheppard-Towner Act
The Persistence of Polygamy : From Joseph Smith's Martyrdom to the First Manifesto, 1844-1890
The Salt Lake Sanitarian : Medical Adviser to the Saints
The WPA Versus the Utah Church
The Woman's Exponent : Forty-Two years of Speaking for Women
The Women of Mormondom
The Working Women of Salt Lake City : A Review of the Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93
This Decade was Different : Relief Society's Social Services Department, 1919-1929
Transgression in the LDS Community : The Cases of Albert Carrington, Richard R. Lyman, and Joseph F. Smith [Albert Carrington] Part 1
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
Utah Politics, 1926-1932
White Roses on the Floor of Heaven : Mormon Women's Popular Theology
Woman's Place in Brigham Young's World
Women in the Utah Work Force from Statehood to World War II
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women's Work on the Mormon Frontier