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Madsen, Carol Cornwall

Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History

Salt Lake City, UT

University of Utah Press

2016

512

[2018 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Biography]

Emmeline B. Wells was the most noted Utah Mormon woman of her time. Lauded nationally for her energetic support of the women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century, she was a self-made woman who channeled her lifelong sense of destiny into ambitious altruism. Her public acclaim and activism belied the introspective, self-appraising, and emotional persona she expressed in the pages of her forty-seven extant diaries. After reconciling herself to the heartaches of plural marriage, she pursued a self-directed life in earnest and wrote, “I have risen triumphant.”

This new biography tells the story of the private Emmeline. The unusual circumstances of her several marriages, the complicated lives of her five daughters, the losses and disappointments interspersed with bright moments and achievements, all engendered the idea that her life was a romance, with the mysterious, tragic, and sentimental elements of that genre. This volume, drawing heavily on Emmeline Wells’s own words, tells the complicated story of a woman of ambition, strength, tenderness, and faith. [Publisher]

Women, 19th century
Wells, Emmeline B.
Award Winner
Biographies, women, 19th century

A Harmony of Voices : Negotiating Latter-day Saint Unity on Women’s Suffrage
B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena
Early Mormonism's Expansive Family and the Browett women
Emmeline Was a Voice for Women
Emmeline Wells and the Suffrage Movement
Faith and intellect : The lives and contributions of Latter-day Saint thinkers
First to Vote : Utah's Unique Place in the Suffrage Movement
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Mormon Gender in the Age of Polygamy
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
Susa Young Gates: Daughter of Mormonism
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
What Is Women's Relationship to Priesthood?

A Bluestocking in Zion : The Literary Life of Emmeline B. Wells
A Centenary of Relief Society
"A City on a Hill" : Chartering the City of Nauvoo
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Adam-ondi-Ahman
Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
A Faded Legacy : Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959
A Legacy of Faith
"A Lion in the Path" : Genesis of the Utah War, 1857-1858
'All Is Well. . .' : The Story of 'the Hymn That Went around the World'
'All Things Move in Order in the City' : The Nauvoo Diary of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
Almon W. Babbitt, Joseph E. Johnson, and the Western Bugle : An LDS Frontier
Newspaper at Kanesville
An Advocate for Women : the Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920
An Apostle's Record : The Journals of Abraham H. Cannon Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1889-1896
And the War Came : James Buchanan, the Utah Expedition, and the Decision to Intervene
An Experiment in Progressive Legislation : The Granting of Woman Suffrage in Utah in 1870
'A Place Prepared' : Joseph, Brigham and the Quest for Promised Refuge in the West
A Ram in the Thicket : The Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War
A Study of Mormon Knowledge of the American Far West Prior to the Exodus (1830 - February, 1846)
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
'At Their Peril' : Utah Law and the Case of Plural Wives, 1850-1900
Autobiography and Poems
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
A Woman's View : Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Battle for the Ballot : Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
Between Two Economies : The Business Development of the Young Woman's Journal, 1889-1900
Biographical Record of Salt Lake City and Vicinity, Containing Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present
City of Saints, City of Sinners : The Development of Salt Lake City as a Tourist Attraction 1869-1900
Collected Discourses Delivered by President Wilford Woodruff, his two Counselors, the Twelve Apostles and Others, Volumes 1-5, 1886-1898
'Dadda, I Wish We Were out of This Country' : The Nauvoo Poor Camps in Iowa, Fall 1846
Daniel Hanmer Wells
Daniel H. Wells' Narrative
Death at Mormon Nauvoo, 1843-1845
Decade of Detente : The Mormon-Gentile Female Relationship in Nineteenth-century Utah
Deseret Hospital
Deseret News Church Almanac
Devil's Gate : Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
Early Mormon Adoption Theology and the Mechanics of Salvation
Eliza R. Snow : The Complete Poetry
Emmeline B. Woodward Wells
Enterprising Ladies : Utah's Nineteenth-Century Women Editors
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Extracts from the Journal of Henry W. Bigler
Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygamy
Forgotten Relief Societies, 1844-67
From Foe to Friend : The Mormon Embrace of Fiction
From Men to Boys : LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829-1996
From Quaker to Latter-day Saint : Bishop Edwin D. Woolley
Gentle Persuaders : Utah's First Women Legislators
George Q. Cannon : A Biography
Gifts of the Spirit : Women's Share
Glorious News from the Salt Lake : The Millennial Star Mormon Trail Letters of Thomas Bullock
'Going to Meeting' in Salt Lake City's Thirteenth Ward, 1849-1881 : A Microanalysis
'Good Guys' vs. 'Good Guys' : Rudger Clawson, John Sharp, and Civil Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century Utah
Grain Storage : The Balance of Power between Priesthood Authority and Relief Society Autonomy
Grant's Watershed : Succession in the Presidency, 1887-1889
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Handcart Companies
Handcarts to Zion : The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
Hearts Turned to the Fathers : A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994
Heart Throbs of the West
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
Heroines of the Church : Biography of Mary Ann Angell Young
Heroines of the Church : Vilate Murray Kimball
Historic Resource Study : Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from November 1869 to June 1910
History of Utah
History of Utah 1540-1886
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume 4
Horne, Mary Isabella
Innovation and Accommodation : The Legal Status of Women in Territorial Utah, 1850-1896
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
In Their Own Words : Women and the Story of Nauvoo
In the World : The Diaries of Reed Smoot
Jennie Anderson Froiseth and the Blue Tea
Jews in Zion
John Doyle Lee : Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat
Joseph C. Kingsbury : A Biography
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Journey to Zion : Voices from the Mormon Trail
Junius Free Wells
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Letters from Exile : The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon, 1886-1889
Letters from the Frontier : Commerce, Nauvoo, and Salt Lake City
Letters of a Proselyte : The Hascall-Pomeroy Correspondence
Life Sketches of Orson Spencer and Others, and History of Primary Work
Lucy Bigelow Young
Lucy's Book : A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir
Martha Jane Horne Tingey
Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon Foreknowledge of the West
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormon Midwife : The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Mormons and Mormonism in U.S. Government Documents : A Bibliography
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-52 : 'And Should We Die'
Mormons, Crickets, and Gulls : A New Look at an Old Story
Nauvoo
Nauvoo : Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nauvoo Legion
Nauvoo Temple
Nauvoo : The City of Joseph
Nearly Everything Imaginable : The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers
Newel K. Whitney : Faithful Steward, Steadfast Saint
"One Long Funeral March" : A Revisionist's View of the Mormon Handcart Disasters
Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
Our Pioneer Heritage
Outline History of Territorial Utah
People and Power of Nauvoo
Pioneer Love Stories
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Preserving the Record and Memory of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842-92
Reading Across the Lines : Mormon Theatrical Formations in Nineteenth Century Nauvoo Illinois
Relations of Rescue : The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
'Remember the Women of Zion :' A Study of the Editorial Content of the Woman's Exponent : A Mormon Woman's Journal
Reminiscences of Early Utah
Representative Women of Deseret : A Book of Biographical Sketches to Accompany the Picture Bearing the Title
Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies
Salt Lake City, the Gathering Place
Scenes and Incidents at Winter Quarters
Schism in the Sisterhood : Mormon Women and Partisan Politics, 1890-1900
'Sisterhood and Sociability' : The Utah Women's Press Club, 1891-1928
Sister Saints
Sisters and Little Saints : One Hundred Years of Primary
"Something Better" for the Sisters : Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo
Spring Exodus from Nauvoo : Act Two in the 1846 Mormon Evacuation Drama
'Strength in Our Union' : The Making of Mormon Sisterhood
Studies in Mormon History 1830-1997 : An Indexed Bibliography
Sustaining the Law : Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters
Telling the Untold Story : Emmeline B. Wells as Historian
The B. H. Roberts Case of 1898-1900
The Economic Role of Pioneer Mormon Women
The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830-1841
The Finest of Fabrics : Mormon Women and the Silk Industry in Early Utah
The Forty-fifth State
The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt : The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer
The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders
The Iowa Mormon Trail : Legacy of Faith and Courage
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 2 : December 1841-April 1843
The King Follett Discourse : A Newly Amalgamated Text
The Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record, 1836-1841
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The 'Leading Sisters' : A Female Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Mormon Society
The Life of John Taylor, Third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Life of Joseph Smith, the Prophet
The Making of a Mormon Myth : The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young
The Man Behind the Discourse : A Biography of King Follett
The Mantle of Joseph : Creation of a Mormon Miracle
The Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Passes to Brother Brigham : A Collective Spiritual Witness
The Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith Passes to Brother Brigham : One Hundred Twenty-one Testimonies of a Collective Spiritual Witness
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois : A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841-1846
The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Retrenchment Association
The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Tragic Matter of Louie Wells and John Q. Cannon
The Wasatch Literary Association
The Women of Mormondom
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
'Thou Art the Man' : Newel K. Whitney in Ohio
Through Memory's Halls : The Life Story of Orson F. Whitney
Treasures of Pioneer History
Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona
Utah
Utah
Utah and the Pony Express
Utah at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Utah's History
Utah State Elections, 1895-1899
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Winter Exodus from Nauvoo : Brigham Young's Camp of Israel, 1846
Winter Quarters
Winter Quarters : Glimmering Glimpses into Mormon Religious and Social Life
Winter Quarters : The 1846-48 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards
Wives and Other Women : Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon
Woman's Place is in the Constitution : The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895
Women at Winter Quarters
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Worth Their Salt : Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah