A Woman's View; Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History

Whitney, Helen Mar; Broberg Holzapfel, Jeni; Neitzel Holzapfel, Richard;

ISBN 10: 1570083576 / ISBN 13: 9781570083570

Edité par Bookcraft, Inc, Salt Lake City, UT, 1997

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519pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]. Pine green paper over boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip and front board. Green endpapers. Front and back board corners and endstrip bump damage. Dust jacket with light wear and rubbing wear on edges. From the publisher: "Helen Mar Kimball Smith Whitney (1828 96) witnessed early Mormon history from its center. She was a daughter of Heber C. and Vilate Kimball and she became a plural wife of Joseph Smith. After the Prophet's death, she married Horace K. Whitney, with whom she raised a large family in Utah. Near the end of her life, Helen wrote her reminiscences of life among the early Latter-day Saints. She relayed her experiences of the momentous: the Missouri persecutions, the very beginnings of polygamy, the exodus from Nauvoo, and the sojourn at Winter Quarters. She also wrote much of daily living: family life, friendships, dancing, and Sabbath-day observance. Her narrative provides a woman's view of the ordinary and the extraordinary in early Mormon history. Reminiscing from the distance of four decades makes for memory problems, but Helen Mar Whitney's narrative benefits from her use of letters and diaries of her father and others. Also, the retrospective position from which she wrote allowed for mature reflection and enabled her to see life lessons in her past experiences. For example, she wrote, "The experience had at Winter Quarters taught me that it was only through obedience and great humiliation, more especially through fasting and prayer, that we could obtain any great manifestations from on high, or the power to enable us to overcome the adversary" (462 63). Helen's reminiscences were published serially in the Woman's Exponent from 1880 to 1886. The Holzapfels provide us the service of pulling together into one book all the scattered installments from this practically inaccessible periodical. In appendixes the editors also provide Whitney's autobiography and her obituary written by her friend Emmeline B. Wells. An introductory essay, accompanied by a number of photographs, invites the reader into the book.".

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• Titre: A Woman's View; Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
• Éditeur: Bookcraft, Inc, Salt Lake City, UT
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1570083576
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781570083570
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Utah & the Mormons

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Book by Whitney Helen Mar