Cherry Silver & Sheree Maxwell Bench | Emmeline B. Wells: A Woman of Destiny

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Emmeline B. Wells was one of the most influential Latter-day Saint women in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To connect Emmeline’s remarkable story and contributions to Latter-day Saint women today, guests Cherry Silver and Sheree Maxwell Bench share insights from the diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, which provide a window into the life of this passionate woman. You’ll hear about her conversion to the restored gospel, empathize with her trials, and be inspired by her accomplishments as a suffrage activist, mother, prominent Church leader, and pillar of her community. Explore the Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells here. https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells?lang=eng

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:11.1	You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women of faith today.
0:16.1	I'm Carly Geiman.
0:17.5	And I'm Shalen Back. We're your co-hosts.
0:20.1	2020 has been such an exciting year as we've been
0:23.0	commemorating achievements made in women's suffrage. And today we get to talk about one of the
0:27.5	most prominent women's rights advocates for Latter-day St. Women and women in general in the late
0:32.3	1800s, Emline B. Wells. So to connect Emline's life and contribution to us as women in the church today,
0:39.4	we have Cherry Silver and Sheree Maxwell Bench in the studio with us today. Thank you both for joining us.
0:45.6	Thank you for having us. Glad to be here. Thank you. So to introduce our guests, we are so lucky to
0:51.6	have them. They both have spent so much time in the area of women's
0:56.2	history and also specifically on Emmeline Wells, so we're excited to ask you questions and just get to
1:01.7	learn more about her from you. So to introduce first Cherry, Cherry Bushman Silver holds a PhD
1:08.0	in English literature from Harvard University and taught literature and
1:12.2	composition as a visiting professor at Brigham Young University. And she was also a researcher
1:17.1	with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History. So welcome, Cherry.
1:22.5	Thank you. And Cherie, Sheree Maxwell Bench holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University and teaches writing at Utah Valley University, as well as courses in Global Women's Studies and Latter-day St. Women's History at BYU.
1:38.1	We want to take some of those classes.
1:40.5	Yes.
1:40.8	That would be really great.
1:42.5	And she previously worked also as a researcher with the Joseph
1:46.1	Fielding Smith Institute at BYU. And you'd mentioned you were associated before that as well,
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