Prologue: A trajectory of plurality : an overview of Joseph Smith's wives -- Mormonism's first plural wife? : Fanny Alger (Smith Custer) -- Wife of two martyrs : Lucinda Pendleton (Morgan Harris Smith) -- "Nor much else but sorrow and affliction" : Louisa Beaman (Smith Young) -- Nauvoo polyandry : Zina Diantha Huntington (Jacobs Smith Young) -- An apostolic life : Presendia Lathrop Huntington (Buell Smith Kimball) -- Levirate marriage : Agnes Moulton Coolbrith (Smith Smith Smith Pickett) -- Mother and daughter : Patty Bartlett (Sessions Smith Parry) and Sylvia Porter Sessions (Lyon Smith Kimball Clark) -- Miracle tale : Mary Elizabeth Rollins (Lightner Smith Young) -- Apostle's wife : Marinda Nancy Johnson (Hyde Smith) -- Mother in Israel : Elizabeth Davis (Goldsmith Brackenbury Durfee Smith Lott) -- Relief Society counselor : Sarah Maryetta Kingsley (Howe Cleveland Smith Smith) -- "Loving sisters" : Delcena Diadamia Johnson (Sherman Smith Babbitt) and Almera Woodward Johnson (Smith Barton) -- Childless mother of mothers in Israel : Eliza Roxcy Snow (Smith Young) -- "Great glory honner & eternal lives" : Sarah Ann Whitney (Smith [Kingsbury] Kimball) -- "Like a wanderer" : Martha McBride (Knight Smith Kimball) -- Gardener's wife : Ruth Daggett Vose (Sayers Smith) -- Daughter of the pagan prophet : Flora Ann Woodworth (Smith Gore) -- Latter-day Hagar : Emily Dow Partridge (Smith Young) -- "Everything looks like desolation and lonesome" : Eliza Maria Partridge (Smith Lyman) -- Proxy wife : Lucy Walker (Smith Kimball) -- Dark sisters : Sarah Lawrence (Smith Kimball Mount) and Maria Lawrence (Smith [Young] Babbitt) -- polygamy, melancholy, possession : Helen Mar Kimball (Smith Whitney) -- Seamstress : Hannah S. Ells (Smith) -- Relief Society treasurer : Elvira Annie Cowles (Holmes Smith) -- "Tried in many ways" : Rhoda Richards (Smith Young) -- "Quiet, unassuming, faithful" : Desdemona Catlin Wadsworth Fullmer (Smith Benson McLane) -- Youthful supplication : Olive Grey Frost (Smith Young) -- Aunt Melissa : Melissa Lott (Smith Bernhisel Willes) -- Outline of a shadow : Nancy Maria Winchester (Smith Kimball Arnold) -- True saint : Fanny Young (Carr Murray Smith).
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