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Feminist Mormon.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Feminist, Mormon, Housewives podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, and we're bringing you back another episode in a series of

a year of polygamy where we help dissect the issues of Mormon polygamy. If this is your

first time listening to the episode, I would point you back to episode number one with Fannie Alger

as these episodes are designed to go in order. Now we are going to talk about Sarah and Whitney today, and I just want to

tell you that we're about halfway through with the list of wives of Joseph Smith. So I hope you've

enjoyed the series thus far. I would love your feedback in the comment section. As we move forward

into the Utah period and to more modern day polygamy,

it's not just going to be me on the podcast, so you won't have to be bored by just my voice

the rest of the time. But we have to just get through these series. This is based on a series I did

a couple of years ago for the Feminist Mormon House Ice blog, and you can read the text on the site.

Now, some of the information has been

updated with scholarship. So I would encourage you to read In Sacred Loneliness by Todd Compton. Brian Hales's

site, Joseph Smith's polygamy, is really great for this. It has a lot of the sources analyzed and

critiqued. So I'd go ahead and do that. But let's get into Sarah Ann Whitney.

Now, she's another controversial wife of Joseph Smith because she was also young. They believe

she married Joseph Smith at about 17 years old. She was the eldest daughter of Newell K. Whitney.

You'll remember that name. He's a big name in Mormon history. And Elizabeth Ann Whitney.

And she was born in

March 22nd, 1825 in Curtland, Ohio. She would have been 13 years old when her family moved,

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