Emmeline B. Wells : an intimate history / Carol Cornwall Madsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madsen, Carol Cornwall, 1930- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wells, Emmeline B. (Emmeline Blanche), 1828-1921.

Wells, Emmeline B.

Latter Day Saints--United States--Biography.

Latter Day Saints.

Latter Day Saint women--United States--Biography.

Latter Day Saint women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, Utah : The University of Utah Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A New England heritage (1828-1832)

A New England childhood (1828-1844)

A trying ordeal (1842-1844)

Great expectations (1844-1845)

Changing directions (1844-1845)

Nauvoo (1844-1846)

Winter quarters (1846-1848)

The nascent Westerner (1848-1852)

Becoming a Wells (1852)

The Wells family (1852-1870)

The emerging journalist (1870s)

Recompense (1874-1875)

A local luminary (1875-1876)

Successes and sorrows (1877-1878)

Wells goes to Washington (1878-1879)

Moving on (1881-1885)

A return to her roots (1885-1886)

A failed effort (1886)

A family affair (1886)

Sequel (1887)

Aftermath (1887-1888)

Changes and challenges (1887-1888)

New thresholds of change (1888-1890)

A leading sister (1890-1892)

Dead Sea apples (1889-1891)

Expanding horizons (1891-1893)

The lure of Utah politics (1894-1895)

Partisan politics (1895-1897)

A book of her own (1896-1898)

An innocent abroad (1899)

The new century (1900-1901)

A new generation (1901-1904)

No rest for the weary (1905-1908)

The elect lady (1908-1911)

End of an era (1911-1914)

Winding down (1915-1918)

The true light (1919-1921)

Appendix. The family of Emmeline B. Wells.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60781-524-9

OCLC:

1004763549