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History podcast. Emma's vacillation between toleration and revile towards polygamy really complicated the practice and

hampered its proliferation. Tensions grew and then fizzled out when she was reminded how

powerless she was to stop the practice. According to her biographers, Lyndon Newell and Valene

Avery in Mormon Enigma, this is on page 169.

Quote, although Emma's open opposition to plural marriage had ceased since receiving her second

anointing, the presence of some of Joseph's young wives under her roof nagged at her.

She continued to confront Joseph with the issue, end quote.

You see, Emma had been dealing with Joe's libertine proclivities.

I guess that's a nice way to say it for well over a decade by this point, but two tenants

of the Navu Mansion exemplified the most frustrating parts of day-to-day life in polygamy,

Emily and Eliza Partridge. They were 18 and 20,

respectively, young and vivacious, and Emma was nearly 40 years old with four kids and frequent bouts

of illness that rendered her bedridden and unable to attend to the socially expected duties

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