In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo

What was life like in Nauvoo, Illinois, the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early 1840s? Perhaps no other writings capture the experiences of the Saints in Nauvoo so vividly and poignantly as the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of the wives, mothers, and sisters who lived there. Some women wrote in diaries and journals as an outlet for feelings and emotions that were sometimes too deep to share with others. As Emmeline B. Wells observed, "There alw...