Valeen Tippetts Avery - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• "Emma Smith: An Unknown Sister," in Maren M. Mouritsen, ed., Blueprints for Living: Perspectives for Latter-day Saint Women, Volume Two (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1980).

• "Emma Smith Through Her Writings" Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 17 (Autumn 1984).

• From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet. University of Illinois Press, October 1998. ISBN 0-252-02399-4.

• "Insanity and the Sweet Singer: A Biography of David Hyrum Smith, 1844-1904" Ph.D. dissertation, Northern Arizona University, 1984.

• "Irreconcilable Differences: David H. Smith's Relationship with the Muse of Mormon History" Journal of Mormon History 15 (1989).

• "Sketches of the Sweet Singer: David Hyrum Smith, 1844-1904" John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 5 (1985).

• "The Last Years of the Prophet's Wife: Emma Hale Smith Bidamon and the Establishment of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" (M.A. thesis, Northern Arizona University, 1981).

With Linda King Newell:

• "Jane Manning James: Black Saint, 1847 Pioneer" Ensign (official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Aug. 1979.
• "Lewis C. Bidamon, Stepchild of Mormondom" BYU Studies 19 (Spring 1979).

• Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Prophet's Wife, Elect Lady, Polygamy's Foe. Doubleday Publishing, September 1984. ISBN 0-385-17166-8. 2nd edition. rev., Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

• "New Light on the Sun: Emma Smith and the New York Sun Letter" Journal of Mormon History 6 (1979).

• "Sweet Counsel and Seas of Tribulation: The Religious Life of the Women in Kirtland," BYU Studies 20 (Winter 1980).

• "The Elect Lady: Emma Hale Smith" Ensign, Sept. 1979.

• "The Lion and the Lady: Brigham Young and Emma Smith," Utah Historical Quarterly 48.1 (Winter 1980). Reprinted in Roger D. Launius and John E. Hallwas, eds., Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), pp. 198–213.

With Linda King Newell and Maureen Ursenback Beecher:

• "Emma and Eliza and the Stairs" BYU Studies 22 (Winter 1982).