In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo (1994)

by Carol Cornwall Madsen

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What was life like in Nauvoo, Illinois, the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early 1840s? Perhaps no other writings capture the experiences of the Saints in Nauvoo so vividly and poignantly as the diaries, letters, an

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1994

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Nauvoo, Illinois, USA

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What was life like in Nauvoo, Illinois, the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early 1840s? Perhaps no other writings capture the experiences of the Saints in Nauvoo so vividly and poignantly as the diaries, letters, an

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Contents:

Introduction: Faith and the Community

Diaries: "In the City of the Saints"
Emmeline B. Harris Wells
Eliza Roxy Snow
Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Young

Letters: "Yours in the Bands of the Covenant"
Mary Fielding Smith
Leonora Cannon Taylor
Ellen Briggs Douglas (Parker)
Sarah Marietta Cleveland
Charlotte Haven
Petition to Governor Carlin
Phebe Carter Woodruff
Vilate Murray Kimball
Mary Ann Angell Young
Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith
Ann Hughlings Pitchforth

Reminiscences: "For the Good and Comfort of My Dear Children"
Drusilla Dorris Hendricks
Jane Snyder Richards
Elizabeth Terry Kirby Heward
Sarah Melissa Granger Kimball
Mercy Rachel Fielding Thompson
Elizabeth Ann Smith Whitney
Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith
Margaret Gay Judd Clawson
Eliza Clayton Margetts
Mary Gibbs Bigelow
Sarah Louisa Norris Decker
Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy

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