Plural marriage in the Nauvoo era of LDS Church history has long been a fascinating subject. To understand it fully requires one to look at it from the perspective of the man who introduced it, but just as crucial is a dive into the lives of the women he married, all who have their stories to tell. In his 1997 award-winning study, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith , Todd Compton focused on the thirty-three women who he could demonstrate that Smith married, providing life stories of many who were well ...
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Plural marriage in the Nauvoo era of LDS Church history has long been a fascinating subject. To understand it fully requires one to look at it from the perspective of the man who introduced it, but just as crucial is a dive into the lives of the women he married, all who have their stories to tell. In his 1997 award-winning study, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith , Todd Compton focused on the thirty-three women who he could demonstrate that Smith married, providing life stories of many who were well-known and others who have been largely forgotten. In his new work, In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents , Compton returns to his subject and provides the raw materials that helped him create his original study, writings composed by the women themselves. This volume includes many autobiographical writings, diaries, and letters, with Compton providing annotations and introductory material that illuminates these crucial primary sources. This allows readers to take their understanding of this unique group of women to a new level and to drive home that fact that their lives go far beyond the Nauvoo experiment that forever links them to Mormonism's founding prophet.
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New in New jacket. SIGNED. 865 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]. Gray paper over boards. Gilt title stamped on backstrip and front cover. Pictorial dustjacket. "When Todd Compton researched his award-winning book, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith he transcribed many items written by his biographical subjects. In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents collects the most important writings of these women, with introductions and helpful annotation. The book includes diaries, letters, memoirs, talks, and legal testimony."-from dj flap.
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