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English
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The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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316
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[1996 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]
[1995 Association for Mormon Letters Winner for Best Biography]Perhaps the most famous woman in Mormon history, Eliza Roxcy Snow was a person of high standing and many accomplishments. She married Joseph Smith secretly in 1842 and wed Brigham Young after Smith's death. She was also the sister of Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of the LDS Church. Best known as Zion's poetess, her prominence also earned her the appellations of priestess and prophetess. Capable of producing a poem for virtually any special occasion, she came to be considered the first lady of Mormon letters, having written, by her own count, nine published volumes. Her leadership among Mormon women is demonstrated by her positions as president of the Relief Society (the church's organisation for women), president of the Deseret Hospital Association, and organizer of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association, the children's Primary Association, and the Woman's Commission Store.Compiled in this volume are her autobiographical writings, including Sketch of My Life, originally written for inclusion in Edward W Tullidge's The Women of Mormondom, published in 1877, and revised for Hubert Howe Bancroft's proposed series of histories of the western territories; her Nauvoo journal and notebook, which are the earliest, but most recently discovered, of her extant chronicles; and her trail diaries, covering February 1846 to May 1847 and June 1847 to September 1849. Together they provide valuable insights into both mid-nineteenth century Mormon society and Eliza R Snow's life, revealing much about a public woman who tried to guard her privacy. [Publisher]
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A City of Refuge : Quincy
American Prophet, New England Town : The Memory of Joseph Smith in Vermont
Army of Israel : Mormon Battalion Narratives
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
Before The Manifesto : The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris
Documents and Dusty Tomes : The Adventures of Arrington, Esplin, and Young
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Eliza R. Snow and the Prophet's Gold Watch : Time Keeper as Relic
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Faithful Transgressions in the American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts
Fanny Alger Smith Custer : Mormonism's First Plural Wife?
Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
First : The Life and Faith of Emma Smith
Four Zinas : A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
Glorious Truths about Women of the Restoration
Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series
Hoop Mania : Fashion, Identity, and Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth-Century Utah
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde : Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land
Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy
Joseph Smith : Monogamist or Polygamist?
Letters on Mormon Polygamy and Progeny : Eliza R. Snow and Martin Luther Holbrook, 1866-1869
Mormon History
Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology
Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
Mormon Women and Scripture in the Nineteenth Century
Mormon Women and the Problem of Historical Agency
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
“My Heart Is Fix’d” : Eliza R. Snow’s Lifelong Conversion
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
'Pleasing to the Eyes of an Exile' : The Latter-day Saint Sojourn at Winter Quarters, 1846-1848
Plural Accidents : Writing In Sacred Loneliness
Preserving the Record and Memory of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842-92
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Recollections of Past Days : The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer
'Remember Me in My Affliction' : Louisa Beaman and Eliza R. Snow Letters, 1849
Sacred Borders : Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
Sarah Louisa Bouton Felt : Thousands Called Her Mother
Telling Latter-Day Saint Lives : The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Vol. 12: March 1843 - July 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 10 : May–August 1842
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 11 : September 1842–February 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 2 : December 1841-April 1843
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Significance of 'O My Father' in the Personal Journey of Eliza R. Snow
The Witness of Women : Firsthand Experiences and Testimonies from the Restoration
The Witness of Women : Firsthand Experiences and Testimonies from the Restoration
"They Shall be Made Whole" : A History of Baptism for Health
Violence and Disruptive Behavior on the Difficult Trail to Utah, 1847-1868
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Women and the Priesthood : What One Mormon Woman Believes
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
"You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out" : Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s