Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
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| Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith | |
|---|---|
| Author | Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Doubleday & Company, Inc. |
| Publication date | 1984 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 394 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-385-17166-8 |
| OCLC Number | 10376019 |
| Dewey Decimal | 289.3/092/4 B 19 |
| LC Classification | BX8695.S515 N48 1984 |
| Followed by | 1994 2nd edition |
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Prophet's Wife, "Elect Lady," Polygamy's Foe 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.
The book won the 1984 Best Book Award for interpretive history by the Mormon History Association.[1]
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[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] Notes
- ^ "MHA Awards" (PDF). Mormon History Association. 2007. http://www.mhahome.org/awards/07_Awards.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
[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).
[edit] External links
- 1985 review in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
- 1985 review in Sunstone (pp. 58–9)
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