Emmeline B. Wells : an intimate history /

Emmeline B. Wells : an intimate history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Madsen, Carol Cornwall, 1930- author.
Imprint:	Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 548 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Wells, Emmeline B. -- (Emmeline Blanche), -- 1828-1921. Wells, Emmeline B. -- (Emmeline Blanche), -- 1828-1921. Mormons -- United States -- Biography. Mormon women -- United States -- Biography. Mormon women. Mormons. United States. Electronic books. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11409292

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ISBN:	9781607815242 1607815249 9781607815235 1607815230
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-528) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9781607815235 1607815230
Standard no.:	40027281307

Table of 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.