Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History

by Carol Cornwall Madsen

Emmeline B. Wells was the most noted Utah Mormon woman of her time. Lauded nationally for her energetic support of the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century, she was a self-made woman who channeled her lifelong sense of destiny into ambitious altruism. Her public acclaim and activism belied the introspective, self-appraising, and emotional persona she expressed in the pages of her forty-seven extant diaries. Yet she wrote, "I have risen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607815230
• ISBN13: 9781607815235
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 10.2"