An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920 (Biographies in Latter-day Saint History)

An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920 (Biographies in Latter-day Saint History) by Madsen, Carol Cornwall. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780842526159.

In her nearly fifty years as a public figure, Emmeline B. Wells edited the Womans 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. Emmelines life was not the norm of 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."