| Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith | |
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| Author(s) | Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Doubleday & Company, Inc. |
| Publication date | 1984 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 394 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-385-17166-8 |
| OCLC Number | 10376019 |
| Dewey Decimal | 289.3/092/4 B 19 |
| LC Classification | BX8695.S515 N48 1984 |
| Followed by | 1994 2nd edition |
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Prophet's Wife, "Elect Lady," Polygamy's Foe is a biography of Emma Hale Smith, wife of Joseph Smith Jr., written by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery.
Generally accepted as a groundbreaking biography, the book places Emma Smith into a context that has better explained the trials and sacrifices of the members of the early Latter Day Saint church. The work made possible, along with other more recent historical works, a major reinterpretation of the formative period of Mormonism.
The book won the 1984 Best Book Award for interpretive history by the Mormon History Association.[1]
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