An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920

In her nearly fifty years as a public figure, Emmeline B. Wells edited the Woman's Exponent, represented Mormon women in the woman suffrage movement, courageously defended plural marriage, and helped mitigate anti-Mormon sentiment, all before becoming Relief Society General President at the age of eighty-two. Emmeline's life was not the norm of her era. Born on the outer fringes of a rural society, she became an intellectual, a middle-class American, and a prominent Mormon. A life-size bust of Emmeline sits in the Utah state capitol building, the lone woman so honored for seventy years. The simple inscription speaks volumes: "A Fine Soul Who Served Us."

• Author
• Carol Cornwall Madsen

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 498

• Publisher
• Brigham Young University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780842526159

• Genres
• biography, history, religion, lds, feminism

• Release date
• 2005