In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Todd Compton, "In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents"
English | ISBN: 1560854480 | 2022 | 888 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 1560854480 | 2022 | 888 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Plural marriage in the Nauvoo era of LDS Church history has long been a fascinating subject. To understand it fully requires one to look at it from the perspective of the man who introduced it, but just as crucial is a dive into the lives of the women he married, all who have their stories to tell. In his 1997 award-winning study, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, Todd Compton focused on the thirty-three women who he could demonstrate that Smith married, providing life stories of many who were well-known and others who have been largely forgotten. In his new work,
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