Emma Lee
Emma Lee
JUANITA BROOKS
INTRODUCTION BY: CHARLES S. PETERSON
Copyright Date: 1984
Published by: University Press of Colorado,
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nwpr
Pages: 120
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46nwpr
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Emma Lee
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Now in its eighth printing,EmmaLee is the classic biography of one of John D. Lee's plural wives. Emma experienced the best and worst of polygamy and came as near to the Mountain Meadows Massacre as anyone could without participating firsthand.

eISBN: 978-0-87421-392-8
Subjects: History
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
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  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
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  3. Illustrations
    Illustrations (pp. vii-viii)
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  4. Introduction Juanita Brooks, Unadorned Realist
    Introduction Juanita Brooks, Unadorned Realist (pp. 1-12)
    Charles S. Peterson
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    Juanita Brooks was approaching the end of a long and illustrious writing career when she publishedEmma Leein 1975. Born Juanita Leavitt in 1898 to a pioneering polygamous family at Bunkerville in southern Nevada, she grew up in a Mormon community that was isolated by desert miles as well as by the customs of one of the most distinctive subcultures America has produced. She came to know the lore of her home country as its traditions and geography unfolded through her youthful experiences. Touched now and again by the out, side world, she yearned for its broadening influences, but...

  5. Emma Batchelor of England
    Emma Batchelor of England (pp. 13-52)
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    The carving on her headstone says that Emma Batchelor was born in Uckfield, Sussex County, England, April 21, 1836, and died November 16, 1897. From family records we learn that she was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Divel Batchelor and had a sister, Frances, and a brother, Henry, and very probably another sister who remained in England.

    Of her early life we know little, but her writing gives evidence of a good education, while her skill in all the household arts and her immaculate cleanliness show careful training in the home. Strong-willed, she was sometimes sharp and positive in...

  6. [Illustrations]
    [Illustrations] (pp. None)
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  7. Emma Lee of Lonely Dell
    Emma Lee of Lonely Dell (pp. 53-94)
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    Emma stretched her legs, turned onto her back, and looked up at the wagon cover. The three little bonnets, suspended from the bow above her, glowed in the misty light like red lanterns, symbolic of her brave front during the preparations to move again, this time to the jumping-off place of the world. As they made the descent last night after dark, she wondered if they were not literally jumping off, into what depths she could not guess.

    Beside her, John D. breathed heavily. Crosswise in the upper end of the wagon, her twin daughters with little Belle between them,...

  8. Doctor Grandma French of Winslow
    Doctor Grandma French of Winslow (pp. 95-108)
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    Emma stretched, straightened her legs to almost touch the foot of the bed, and raised her arms above her head. She had been dreamingcrazy, mixed-up dreams without sense. She had been back in Old England with her brother, Henry, and then suddenly she seemed to be in a place, new and strange, raw, desolate, with only a few scattered houses. If John D. were here, he would have figured some portent or meaning to it all. But John was gone, and she felt almost a relief that at last he was beyond the power of evil men to harass him...

  9. Index
    Index (pp. 109-112)
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  10. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 113-113)
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