WOMEN OF FAITH IN THE LATTER DAYS: Volume Two, 1821-1845

Richard E. Turley, Jr., and Brittany A. Chapman, eds

ISBN 10: 1609071735 / ISBN 13: 9781609071738

Published by Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, 2012

About this Item

491p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a fine dustjacket. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is like-new. Volume 2 only (of 4). A collection of short biographies of early Latter-day Saint women.

Seller Inventory # 165235

Bibliographic Details

• Title: WOMEN OF FAITH IN THE LATTER DAYS: Volume Two, 1821-1845
• Publisher: Deseret Book, Salt Lake City
• Publication Date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1609071735
• ISBN 13: 9781609071738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Protestantism

About this title

Synopsis

This groundbreaking series recounts the lives of women of faith and dedication in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Often using the women's own words, these stories share their trials, their triumphs, and their testimonies.

This volume, the second in a series of seven, features women born between 1821 and 1845 and presents both well-known women and previously obscure ones whose lives of faith also deserve emulation. They lived in an age when Latter-day Saint leaders emphasized the literal gathering of Israel, and, for that reason, the stories you will find here include accounts of the trek to Utah and the settlement of new communities in the West.

You will encounter not only such well-known figures as women's rights advocate Emmeline B. Wells and Relief Society general president Zina D.H. Young but also a convert of African descent who walked from New York to Nauvoo, a London seamstress who survived the events that befell the ill-fated Martin Handcart Company, a Norwegian native determined to support her family amidst famine, and an Australian Saint shipwrecked en route to Zion.

The faith these women exhibited as they rejoiced in blessings and dealt with struggles provides a model for us in facing our own challenges as we strive to build lives of faith today.

About the Author

Brittany Chapman Nash is a historian in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her background is focused on women during the Victorian era.

Richard E. Turley, Jr., Assistant Church Historian and Recorder for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a member of the editorial board of the Church Historian's Press, which publishes The Joseph Smith Papers and other highly-acclaimed works of Church history.