“The world of Mormon history lost a giant,” Latter-day Saint historian Benjamin Park wrote. “Though lacking formal graduate training or faculty appointment, Newell plumbed the depths of sources to recapture the lived experience of LDS women.'
tweeted this week. Newell and Avery “restored agency to Emma’s story and presented her, largely for the first time, as the determined actor she was.”
It also galvanized opposition to the book among church leaders throughout Utah, Idaho and Arizona, who told their flock not to invite the women to speak at Latter-day Saint meetings.Shocked at that news, Newell and her husband, Jack, met with apostle Dallin H. Oaks , who told them: “The image of Joseph Smith in your book undermines members’ faith in his prophetic mission.”
Newell went on to “forge a self-made career as a writer and historian while raising four children in a time and place where there were few role models,” according to her“The world of Mormon history lost a giant,” Park tweeted. “Though lacking formal graduate training or faculty appointment, Newell plumbed the depths of sources to recapture the lived experience of LDS women.
As a writer, Newell penned histories of Millard, Garfield and Piute counties for Utah’s centennial in 1996. On top of that, she was a series editor for University of Utah Press, development director for the Utah Humanities Council, and director of special projects at
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