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A Woman's View

Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Jeni Broberg Holzapfel
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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introductory Essay
    A Life’s Story
  • Editorial Procedure
  • Early Reminiscences
  • Life Incidents
  • Retrospection
  • Scenes in Nauvoo
  • Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo
  • Scenes in Nauvoo after the Martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch
  • Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H. C. Kimball’s Journal
  • The Last Chapter of Scenes in Nauvoo
  • Our Travels beyond the Mississippi
  • Scenes and Incidents at Winter Quarters
  • Appendix One
    Helen Mar Kimball Whitney 1881 Autobiography
  • Appendix Two
    Helen Mar Whitney’s 1896 DESERET EVENING NEWS Obituary

About the Book

As a Latter-day Saint woman during the early days of the Church, Helen Mar Kimball Whitney (1828–96) lived in an extraordinary time. She experienced firsthand the difficult period of persecution in Missouri, the introduction of plural marriage, the aftereffects of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s martyrdom, the exodus from Nauvoo and trek across the plains, and the Saints’ arrival in Utah. This volume presents in their entirety Helen Mar Whitney’s reminiscences as they appeared in the Woman’s Exponent between 1880 and 1887. The author’s eyewitness insights into Latter-day Saint life during the formative years of the Church, as well as her expressions of faith in the gospel, will provide a nontraditional source of study and appreciation as they present a woman’s view of early Church history.

ISBN 1-5700-8357-6

Published in 1997

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