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Richard E. turley Jr. and Brittany A. Cahpman, Editors. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 2012. Hardbound, 6×9″, 491 pages.
This groundbreaking series recounts the lives of women of faith and dedication in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Often using the women’s own words, these stories share their trials, their triumphs, and their testimonies.
This volume, the second in a series of seven, features women born between 1821 and 1845 and presents both well-known women and previously obscure ones whose lives of faith also deserve emulation. They lived in an age when Latter-day Saint leaders emphasized the literal gathering of Israel, and, for that reason, the stories you will find here include accounts of the trek to Utah and the settlement of new communities in the West.
You will encounter not only such well-known figures as women’s rights advocate Emmeline B. Wells and Relief Society general president Zina D.H. Young but also a convert of African descent who walked from New York to Nauvoo, a London seamstress who survived the events that befell the ill-fated Martin Handcart Company, a Norwegian native determined to support her family amidst famine, and an Australian Saint shipwrecked en route to Zion.
The faith these women exhibited as they rejoiced in blessings and dealt with struggles provides a model for us in facing our own challenges as we strive to build lives of faith today.
- “The Hand of God Was with Me”
PATIENCE LOADER ROZSA ARCHER
Andrea Ventilla - “Joyful Were My Feelings”
SARAH MARIA MOUSLEY CANNON
Madelyn Stewart Silver Palmer - “Contentment with My Lot”
HANNAH LAST CORNABY
Craig C. Crandall and Cathleen C. Lloyd - “The Lord Has Been My Guide”
CORDELIA CALISTA MORLEY COX
Patricia H. Stoker - “All Kinds of Trials and Hardships”
JANETTA ANN MCBRIDE FERRIN
Rebekah Ryan Clark and Marcus Patrick Ryan - “The Lord Has Greatly Blessed Us”
LUCY HANNAH WHITE FLAKE
David F. Boone - “I Will Put My Trust in Him”
ELIZABETH ANDERSON HOWARD
Steven L. Staker - “The Lord’s Blessing Was with Us”
JANE ELIZABETH MANNING JAMES
Margaret Blair Young - “Strength According to My Day”
ANN PRIOR JARVIS
Amy Tanner Thiriot - “United in All Things”
JANE CADWALADER BROWN JOHNSON
Patricia Lemmon Spilsbury - “The Lord Alone Knows How Deep the Sorrow Has Been in My Heart”
MARY MINERVA DART JUDD
Todd M. Compton - “I Hailed It with Joy”
SUSANAH STONE LLOYD
David R. Cook - “Hope in the Gospel”
ROSA CLARA FRIEDLANDER LOGIE
Marjorie Newton - “Pleasure in Waiting upon Others”
ELIZABETH GRAHAM MACDONALD
Lowell C. “Ben” Bennion - “Place Your Trust in God”
JULIA SOPHIA RAYMOND MCKEE
Jennifer Pratt Reidhead - “Angels Shall Minister unto You”
MARY GOBLE PAY
Christine Banks Bowers, Virginia H. Pearce, and Patricia H. Stoker - “We Are Blessed as Sisters”
SARAH ANN NELSON PETERSON
Jennifer L. Lund - “Eye to Eye in Faith and Scientific Knowledge”
ESTHER ROMANIA BUNNELL PRATT PENROSE
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - “Give Our Creator the Thanks Due to Him”
EMELINE GROVER RICH
Rosaland Thornton, Deborah R. Otteson, and Teresa S. Rich - “For the Best Good of the Children”
AURELIA READ SPENCER ROGERS
RoseAnn Benson - “God Is Ever Just and Kind”
MARGARET CONDIE SHARP
Emily B. Farrer - “The Lord Helps Us in Small Things As Well As Large”
RACHEL EMMA WOOLLEY SIMMONS
Laura F. Willes - “Peace Be with You”
BATHSHEBA WILSON BIGLER SMITH
Heidi S. Swinton - “’Tis No Easy Thing to Be a Saint”
ANSTIS ELMINA SHEPARD TAYLOR
Andrea G. Radke-Moss - “I Believe in Women, Especially Thinking Women”
EMMELINE BLANCHE WOODWARD WELLS
Carol Cornwall Madsen and Cherry B. Silver - “The Lord Has Remembered His Handmaiden in Her Affliction”
HELEN MAR KIMBALL WHITNEY
Jay A. Parry - “All Is Well and Peace with Us Dwells”
CATHERINE ELIZABETH MEHRING WOOLLEY
Jay G. Burrup - “Truth Is What My Soul Craves”
EMILY DOW PARTRIDGE YOUNG
Sherilyn Farnes - “Power for the Accomplishment of Greater Good”
ZINA DIANTHA HUNTINGTON YOUNG
Jennifer ReederBonus Chapters (Included in the eBook) - “Wisdom and Understanding Is Your Gift”
MARTHA JANE KNOWLTON CORAY
Julie A. P. Frederick - “Never Did My Home Life Run So Smoothly”
MARY BOMMELI EYRING
Jennifer Turley Rollins - “Cheer Up, Deliverance Is at Hand”
ELIZABETH HORROCKS JACKSON KINGSFORD
Jay A. Parry - “Oh! How Happy I Was”
ANN AGATHA WALKER PRATT
Hannah C. Smith - “She Went About Doing Good”
JANE SNYDER RICHARDS
Meghan M. Mathews - “I Obeyed the Call”
MARY ALICE SPRINGALL SCHOENFELD
Cherry B. Silver