Volume 2

Volume 2 will include chapters on women born between 1821 and 1845. Below is a list of potential women who could be included in the series with an initial effort to identify their life writings or, in some cases biographies. We encourage you to consider women from your own personal history or those who may not be on this list. Those women whose names appear in gray have already had proposals accepted for them. If you are interested in writing a chapter, this list is a potential starting point to identify subjects and their life events.

Many of the sources listed are available at the LDS Church History Library in Salt Lake City. Within practical limits, we are willing to help committed researchers receive access to these materials if they live far from the LDS Church History Library and do not have access to them elsewhere. Please be judicious in your requests. In some cases Bitton’s Guide may contain helpful summaries of life writings. At the conclusion of this list is a brief bibliography of frequently referenced materials.

  • Adaline Ballou Scoville (1830-1913): Autobiography, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, UT (hereafter CHL).
  • Anne Alice Gheen Kimball (1827-1879): Diary typescript (p. 22) published by Heber C. Kimball Family Association.
  • Ansine M. Peterson (1845-1931): Autobiography at Utah State Historical Society.
  • Artemisia Sidnie Myers Foote (1829-1915): Autobiography at BYU.
  • Augusta Dorius Stevens (1837-): Autobiography available by microfilm at many institutions.
  • Augusta Joyce Crocheron (1844-1915): Widely published author.
  • Barbara Ann Ewell Evans (1821-1898): Autobiography excerpted in Journey to Zion, 272-75.
  • Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith (1822-1910): Documents in George A. Smith Collections at the CHL (available in Selected Collections) and Marriott Special Collections. See also Record Book of Bathsheba W. Smith, (Provo: Brigham Young University Library, 1970); Autobiography at BYU.
  • Caroline Frances Angell Davis Holbrook (1825-1908): Typescipt autobiography at BOAP.org.
  • Christiana Dollinger Pyper (1836-1925): Diary, 1886-1889, November 9 and 10, 1888, holograph, George D. Pyper Papers, MS 1 Bx 6, Fd 1, Special Collections, Marriott Library.
  • Cordelia Morley Cox (1823-): Holograph (15 pp.) autobiography at BYU Special Collections.
  • Eliza Shelton Keeler (1840-1909 ): Autobiograph at BYU.
  • Elizabeth Anderson Howard (1823-1893): Diaries and Account Books at BYU.
  • Elizabeth Graham MacDonald (1831): Holograph (46 pp.) autobiography at CHL.
  • Elizabeth Horrocks Jackson Kingsford (1826-): Leaves from the Life of Elizabeth Horrocks Jackson Kingsford (Ogeden, Utah: N.Pub., 1908); Typescript (12 pp.) autobiography at Utah Hist. Soc.
  • Elizabeth White Steward (1838-): Typescript autobiography available online.
  • Elmina A Shepherd Taylor (1830-1904): Diary, CHL.
  • Emily Dow Partridge Smith Young (1824-): Autobiography in Women’s Exponent 13 (1884); 14 (1885). Biography in Compton, In Sacred Loneliness.
  • Emmeline B. Wells (1828-1921)
  • Hannah Isabell Fawcett Nixon (1845-1929): Typescript (22 pp.) autobiography, Library of Congress, USU, and Hist. Soc.
  • Hannah Last Cornaby (1822-): Autobiography and Poems (Salt Lake City: J.C. Graham & Co., 1881) (158p.)
  • Harriet Ovard Lee (1836): Typescript (8 pp.) autobiography, recorded stenographically, CHL.
  • Harriet Betsey Cook Teeples (1844-1933): Autobiography at BYU.
  • Helen Mar Kimball Whitney (1842-1896): Life writings published in Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton, eds., A Widow’s Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003) and Jeni Broberg Holzapfel and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, eds., A Woman’s View: Helen Mar Whitney’s Reminiscences of Early Church History (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997).
  • Irene Hascall Pomeroy (1825-1861): “Letters of a Proselyte: The Hascall-Pomeroy Correspondence,” Utah Historical Quarterly 25 (January 1957): 53-70; (April 1957): 133-151; (July 1957): 237-257; (October 1957): 339-357.
  • Jane Carter Robinson Hindley (1828-1905): Holograph diaries, 7 vols., CHL.
  • Jane Manning James (1822-1908)
  • Jane Snyder Richards (1823-): Several holograph autobiographies, CHL; Sermons in the Women’s Exponent
  • Jane Wilkie Hooper Blood (1845-1898): Jane Wildie Hooper Blood Autobiography and Abridged Diary, Ivy Hooper Blood Hill, ed. (Logan: J.P. Smith Printing, Inc., 1966).
  • Louisa Rosser Evans Coates Vest (1837-): Typescript (16 pp.) autobiography, CHL.
  • Lucinda Haws Holdaway (1828-1907): Autobiography published as Biographical Sketch of Lucida Haws Holdaway (Provo: s.n., n.d.).
  • Lucy Hannah White Flake (1842-1900) Holograph diaries, 6 vols., BYU.
  • Lucy Walker Smith Kimball (1826-): Lucy Walker Kimball, Autobiography, CHL. Interesting Details about Nauvoo and JS. Biography in Compton, In Sacred Loneliness.
  • Margaret Gay Judd Clawson (1931-): Holograph (275 pp.) autobiography, CHL.
  • Margaret McIntyre Burgess: Autobiography in “Mothers in Israel,” Relief Society Magazine 5 (January, 1918).
  • Margaret Young Taylor (1837–1919): Wife of John Taylor. Member of the first Young Ladies MIA General Presidency. Papers at the CHL, MS 2185.
  • Margrette W. Pierce Whitesides Young (1823): Holgraph (15 pp.) autobiography, CHL.
  • Mariah Pulsipher (1822-1893): Autobiography excerpts published in Kenneth Glyn Hales, comp. and ed., Windows: A Mormon Family (Tucson, Arizona: Skyline Printing, 1985).
  • Mart Minerva Dart Judd
  • Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (1821-1881): Diary, journals, sermon notes at BYU.
  • Mary A. Phelps Rich (1829-1912): Typescript autobiography, BYU.
  • Mary Alice Cannon Lambert (1828-): Holograph (750 pp.) diaries, CHL.
  • Mary Ann Burnham Freeze (1841-): Diaries, 1875-1899, photocopy of holograph, L. Tom Perry Special Collections and Manuscripts, BYU.
  • Mary Ann Jones Ellsworth (1836-1925): “Diary of Mary Ann Jones (Age 19) on Her Trip Across the Plains,” CHL.
  • Mary E. B. Jones: Holograph (7 pp.) autobiography, CHL.
  • Mary Ellen Abel Kimball (1838-1863): Journal, CHL.
  • Mary Haskin Parker Richards (1823-): Maurine Carr Ward, ed., Winter Quarters: The 1846–1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996).
  • Mary Jane Dilworth Hammond (1831-): Her missionary diary has been digitized by BYU and is available here.
  • Mary Jane Mount Tanner (1837-1883): A Fragment: The Autobiography of Mary Jane Mount Tanner (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1980).
  • Mary Young Willcox (1831-): Holograph (55 pp.) autobiography, CHL.
  • Patience Loader Rozsa Archer (1827-1921): Sandra Ailey Petree, ed., Recollections of Past Days: The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006).
  • Paulina Eliza Phelps Lyman (1837-1912): Statement about being blessed by Joseph Smith, at BYU.
  • Pleasant Green Taylor (1827-1917): Holograph (42 pp.) autobiography, CHL.
  • Priscilla Staines (1834-) Writings in Tullidge, The Women of Mormondom, 285-291.
  • Rachel Emma Woolley Simmons (1836-1926): Midwife and doctor. Reminiscences and Journals, microfilm of holograph, CHL.
  • Rachel Ridgeway Ivins Grant (1821-1909) See Thirteenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, Relief Society Minutes, microfilm of holograph, LR 6133 14, LDS Church Archives.
  • Rebecca E. Howell Mace (1833): Typescript (90 pp.) journal, CHL.
  • Rose Clara Logie
  • Page Rogers (1823-1907): Holograph (200 pp.) journal, CHL.
  • Sarah Ann Nelson Peterson
  • Sarah Maria Mousley Cannon: Kenneth L. Holmes, ed., Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890, 11 vols. (Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark, 1983-1993; rpt. University of Nebraska Press).
  • Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Young (1821-1901): Many diaries, correspondence and records in CHL MS 4780. A few additional items at BYU. Wife of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Second General Relief Society President in Utah.

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Selected Bibliography

Woman’s Exponent, 41 vols. (1872-1914).

Augusta Joyce Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret (Salt Lake City: J. C. Graham & Co., 1884).

Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: n.p., 1877).

Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997).

Kenneth W. Godfrey, Audrey M. Godfrey, and Jill Mulvay Derr, Women’s Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1900 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1982).

Kenneth L. Holmes, ed., Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890, 11 vols. (Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark, 1983-1993; rpt. University of Nebraska Press).

Carol Cornwall Madsen, In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994).

Carol Cornwall Madsen, Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997).

Selected Collections from the Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2 vols., DVD (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, [December 2002]).