![]() ![]() Burton looked me in the eye and said, “Jenny, remember, Emma was the elect lady.” One day, co-author Kate Holbrook and I met with the general Relief Society presidency to give them information about our project, and I expressed my dismay and anxiety about Emma Smith. I knew we had to include something from Emma Smith, but unfortunately that meant cobbling together some of her words in the Nauvoo Relief Society minutes-words that in my mind had come to express her disdain for polygamy and the secrecy surrounding the practice. My first work project evolved into At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women. I earned an MA in history, documentary editing, and archival management at New York University, then a PhD in American history from George Mason University, with a dissertation on memory, material culture and the Nauvoo Relief Society. The loss of Joseph was devastating for Emma.Īfter three years at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at BYU, Jill and Carol pushed me off to grad school. Snow’s words on those pages and called me to the work. The women in Nauvoo spoke to me through Eliza R. Snow, and their combined work on the Nauvoo Relief Society minutes. Soon I was also working for Jill Mulvay Derr in her work on Eliza R. Student teaching changed those plans.Īfter following a kind bishop’s suggestion to study communication and an MA at Arizona State in human communication, I got a temporary job as a research assistant for Carol Cornwall Madsen in her work on Emmeline B. I came to history in a roundabout way: I thought I wanted to be a high school English teacher. I am the nineteenth-century women’s history specialist at the Church History Department for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. How did Jenny Reeder become interested in Emma Hale Smith? ![]() What would you ask Emma if you could go back in time?.What do you wish people know about her?.Why was she worried about Martin Harris?.How did she contribute to the coming forth of the Book of Mormon?.What was unique about Joseph and Emma’s marriage?.What is the backstory for Emma’s biography?.Read Jenny Reeder’s biography of Emma Hale Smith, the wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith. In this interview, Jenny Reeder shares insights from her Emma Smith biography, First: The Life and Faith of Emma Smith. There’s even a new argument that she may have possessed a Joseph Smith daguerreotype. Emma Hale Smith is sometimes viewed only as “Joseph Smith’s wife, Emma.” Stories are told of her wrestles with polygamy or her decision to remain in Nauvoo. ![]()
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