I have never seen a woman in my life who would endure every species of fatigue and hardship

from month to month and from year to year with that unflinching courage, zeal, and patience

which she has ever done. For I know that which she has had to endure, she has been tossed

upon the ocean of uncertainty. She has breasted the storms of persecution

and buffeted the rage of men and devils, which would have borne down almost any other woman.

Lucy Mack Smith

He carried the day, but I had to stay at home, as my father had been warned by the prophet

to keep his daughter away from

there because of the black legs and certain ones of questionable character who would attend there.

His wife, Emma, had become the ruling spirit, and money had become her god.

Helen Marr Kimball

I am Ryan McKnight.

I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Christopher McKnight. I'm Kara Santa Maria.

I am Christopher Smith.

Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.

This is Naked Mormonism.

The Serial Mormon History Podcast.

The most well-regarded and renowned biography of Emma Hale-Smith that exists to date is Mormon Enigma,

written by Valene Avery and Linda Newell. When this book came out in 1984, it turned the realm of

Mormon history concerning Emma Smith, of course, on its head. Never before had scholars so

unabashedly dealt with Emma's perspective of church history,

especially when it came to polygamy, and never had it been conducted by women prior to this book.

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