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A FAIR Analysis of: In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith A work by author: Todd D. Compton

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About this work

Author: Todd Compton

Claims made in this work

Index of claims

Reviews of this work

• Reviews of In Sacred Loneliness:
  • Richard Lloyd Anderson and Scott H. Faulring, "The Prophet Joseph Smith and His Plural Wives (Review of In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith)," FARMS Review of Books 10/2 (1998): 67–104. off-site PDF link
  • Alma G. Allred, “Variations on a Theme,” Presentation to Mormon History Association, 1999, updated on-line version of 6 December 1999. PDF link
  • Danel W. Bachman, “’Let No One…Set On My Servant Joseph’: Religious Historians Missing the Lessons of Religious History,” Presentation to Mormon History Association, 22 May 1999. PDF link
  • Danel W. Bachman, "Prologue to the Study of Joseph Smith's Marital Theology (Review of In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith)," FARMS Review of Books 10/2 (1998): 105–137. off-site PDF link
  • Kathryn Daynes, “Review of In Sacred Loneliness,” Pacific Historical Review 68 (August 1999): 466–468.
  • Todd Compton's response to Anderson, Faulring and Bachman Reviews in FARMS Review of In Sacred Loneliness off-site
  • Todd Compton's response to Jerald and Sandra Tanners' Review of In Sacred Loneliness off-site

Further reading

• Suzanne Armitage, O that my voice could reach the ears of those uninformed and misinformed.

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