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In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Hardback)
Short Description for In Sacred LonelinessMormons today have little idea about their founder's family life. Many do not know that Joseph Smith was a practicing polygamist with thirty-three wives. To understand the issues surrounding the prophet's domestic arrangements, Compton has painstakingly researched and recovered the life stories of the women, aged fourteen to fifty-four, whom the prophet married and whose salvation he guaranteed th...
Full description- Publisher: Signature Books
- Published: 01 July 1997
- Format: Hardback 824 pages
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- Categories: Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches
- ISBN 13: 9781560850854 ISBN 10: 156085085X
- Sales rank: 500,404
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Full description for In Sacred Loneliness
Mormons today have little idea about their founder's family life. Many do not know that Joseph Smith was a practicing polygamist with thirty-three wives. To understand the issues surrounding the prophet's domestic arrangements, Compton has painstakingly researched and recovered the life stories of the women, aged fourteen to fifty-four, whom the prophet married and whose salvation he guaranteed through this "new order".

