Additional Resources

Researchers can also use search engines to find valuable resources outside of the Church History Department. Some of these resources are included below. These websites and sources are not Church sponsored, and the Church does not endorse their content.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Brigham Young University:

• Relief Society
• Relief Society in Nauvoo
• Relief Society Magazine
• Woman’s Exponent
• Woman Suffrage
• Women, Roles of

Woman’s Exponent exhibit hosted by the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.

Beecher, Maureen Ursenbach and Lavina Fielding Anderson, eds. Women of Faith in the Latter Days. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2011.

Cope, Rachel, Amy A. Easton-Flake, Keith A. Erekson, and Lisa Olsen Tait. Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.

Derr, Jill Mulvay, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher. Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2000.

Godfrey, Kenneth W., Audrey M. Godfrey, and Jill Mulvay Derr. Women’s Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1984.

Olson, Camille Fronk, and Hollie Rhees Fluhman. A Place to Belong: Reflections from Modern Latter-day Saint Women. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2019.

Reeder, Jennifer. First: The Life and Faith of Emma Smith. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2021.

Turley, Richard E., and Brittany Chapman Nash. Women of Faith in the Latter Days. 4 vols. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2011.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism 1835–1870. New York, New York: Vintage Books, 2018.