Lisa Olsen Tait was an adjunct professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University when this was written. Lisa Olsen Tait recently completed a PhD in English at the University of Houston, with a dissertation on Susa Young Gates, the Young Woman’s Journal, and transitional Mormonism in the 1890s. Her research focuses on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literature and culture, with a special interest in women writers, popular fiction, and Mormon magazines.