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An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920 (Biographies in Latter-Day Saint History) (Biographies in Latter-Day Saint History)
An Advocate for Women The Public Life of Emmeline B Wells 18701920 - Biographies in Latter-Day Saint History Author:Carol Cornwall Madsen In her nearly fifty years as a public figure, Emmeline B. Wells edited the Woman's Exponent, represented Mormon women in the woman suffrage movement, courageously defended plural marriage, and helped mitigate anti-Mormon sentiment, all before becoming Relief Society General President at the age of eighty-two. Emmeline's life was not the norm of ... more »her era. Born on the outer fringes of a rural society, she became an intellectual, a middle-class American, and a prominent Mormon. A life-size bust of Emmeline sits in the Utah state capitol building, the lone woman so honored for seventy years. The simple inscription speaks volumes: "A Fine Soul Who Served Us."« less