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Mormon Enigma

Emma Hale Smith

by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery

A prize-winning biography of Joseph Smith's first wife, who served as scribe, hymnal compiler and first president of the Relief Society. It follows her through the Nauvoo years, her opposition to plural marriage and her later life in Illinois, where she supported the Reorganized Church led by her son.

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