Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith

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Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith is a biography of Emma Hale Smith, wife of Joseph Smith Jr., written by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery.

Generally accepted as a groundbreaking biography, the book places Emma Smith into a context that has better explained the trials and sacrifices of the members of the early Latter Day Saint church. The work made possible, along with other more recent historical works, a major reinterpretation of the formative period of Mormonism.

[edit] Publication information

• Newell, Linda King and Avery, Valeen T. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Prophet's Wife, Elect Lady, Polygamy's Foe. Doubleday Publishing, September 1984. ISBN 0-385-17166-8. 2nd edition. rev., Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

[edit] References

• Anderson, Devery S. (Summer 2002), "A History of Dialogue, Part Three: The Utah Experience, 1982-1989", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35 (2): 1-71, <http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=29817&REC=14>. Retrieved on 2008-03-19. Discusses the religious controversy following Mormon Enigma's initial publication in 1984 (page 40 to 48).