Reflections Of Emma, Joseph Smith's Wife

This truly unique book offers new information in understanding Emma Hale Smith. It contains more than 75 photos of Emma her eleven children, and twenty-eight grandchildren - many have never appeared before. This book also contains interviews with 3 of her grandchildren who knew her intimately-eyewitnesses to her sensitive personality and to the cross-currents of emotion that affected her decisions. Experience Emma's singular witness of her husband's prophetic call. See firsthand the ordinary circumstances of her daily life. Feel her grief over the deaths of her children, the oppression of poverty and persecution, her hatred for resistance to plural marriage, her leadership of the Relief Society, and her participation in the sacred temple ordinances. Buddy Youngreen uses important new source material to go beyond the works of previous writers who often have cast Emma distastefully. What emerges is a clear picture of the First Lady of the Restoration, a picture that every Latter-day Saint will enjoy - one of the most insightful and complete studies on Emma ever published.