Review: Carol Cornwall Madsen. Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017.

Authors

Catherine O'Donnell

Keywords

Emmeline B. Wells, Carol Madsen, latter-day saints, biography, diaries

Abstract

In Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History, Carol Cornwall Madsen reveals the rich and painful inner life of a woman who was for decades the most famous female member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Drawing on an extraordinary “paper trail of thousands of pages from diaries, letters, newspaper articles and editorials, and a volume of poetry” (vii), Madsen offers an astute and sympathetic portrait of a woman who accomplished and suffered much.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

O'Donnell, Catherine (2019) "Review: Carol Cornwall Madsen. Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 17.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol6/iss1/17