Women's History in Utah Historical Quarterly

Women’s History in Utah Historical Quarterly: A Selected Bibliography

Across the decades, Utah Historical Quarterly has published a goodly number of articles that contribute to an understanding of women in Utah’s past: both as intentional women’s history and otherwise. A selection of those articles is below; most of them are freely available online at issuu.com/utah10/stacks.

“The Carol Carlise Summer Wedding Dress Collection.” 83, no. 3 (2015): 216–33.

Aird, Polly. “Small but Significant: The School of Nursing at Provo General Hospital, 1904–1924.” 86, no. 2 (2018): 102–27.

Alexander, Thomas G. “An Experiment in Progressive Legislation: The Granting of Woman Suffrage in Utah in 1870.” 38, no. 1 (1970): 20–30.

Arrington, Chris Rigby. “The Finest of Fabrics: Mormon Women and the Silk Industry in Utah.” 46, no. 4 (1978): 376–96.

Arrington, Harriet Horne. “Alice Merrill Horne, Art Promoter and Early Utah Legislator.” 58, no. 3 (1990): 261–76.

Arrington, Leonard J. “Women as a Force in the History of Utah.” 38, no. 1 (1970): 3–6.

Avery, Valeen Tippets, and Linda King Newell. “The Lion and the Lady: Brigham Young and Emma Smith.” 48, no. 1 (1980): 81–97.

Beecher, Maureen Ursenbach. “Women’s Work on the Mormon Frontier.” 49, no. 3 (1981): 276–90.

Beeton, Beverly. “A Feminist among the Mormons: Charlotte Ives Cobb Godbe Kirby.” 59, no. 1 (1991): 22–31. ———. “Woman Suffrage in Territorial Utah.” 46, no. 2 (1978): 100–120.

Bennion, Sherilyn Cox. “Enterprising Ladies: Utah’s Nineteenth-Century Women Editors.” 49, no. 3 (1981): 291–304.

Bitton, Davis, and Gary L. Bunker. “Double Jeopardy: Visual Images of Mormon Women to 1914.” 46, no. 2 (1978): 184–202.

Bohman, Lisa Bryner. “A Fresh Perspective: The Woman Suffrage Associations of Beaver and Farmington, Utah.” 59, no. 1 (1991): 4–21.

Brooks, Juanita. “Jest a Copin’—Word f’r Word.” 37, no. 4 (1969): 375–96.

——— and Janet G. Butler, ed. “Utah’s Peace Advocate, the ‘Mormona’: Elise Furer Musser.” 46, no. 2 (1978): 151– 66.

Bunker, Gary L., and Carol B. Bunker. “Woman Suffrage, Popular Art, and Utah.” 59, no. 1 (1991): 32–51.

Bapis, Elaine M. “In the Hands of Women: Home Altar Tradition in Utah’s Greek Orthodox Homes.” 65, no. 4 (1997): 312–34.

Bate, Kerry William. “Diary of Mary Elizabeth (May) Stapley, a Schoolteacher in Virgin, Utah.” 60, no. 2 (1992): 158–67.

Bennion, Sherilyn Cox. “The Women’s Exponent: Forty-Two Years of Speaking for Women.” 44, no. 3 (1976): 222–39.

Blakesley, Katie Clark. “‘Save ‘em, Wash ‘em, Clean ‘em, Squash ‘em’: The Story of the Salt Lake City Minute Women.” 71, no. 1 (2003): 36–51.

Blomquist, Roger. “A Most Horrible Crime: The 1908 Murder of Mary Stevens in Orderville, Utah.” 84, no. 2 (2016): 118–35.

Bradley, Martha S. “Mary Teasdel, Yet Another American in Paris.” 58, no. 3 (1990): 244–60.

Brimhall, Sandra Dawn. “Sara Alexander: Pioneer Actress and Dancer.” 66, no. 4 (1998): 320–33.

Brimhall, Sandra Dawn, and David A. Hales. “Frances R. Burke: Toquerville Presbyterian Missionary.” 72, no. 2 (2004): 156–66.

Brodie, Fawn M. “Inflation Idyl: A Family Farm in Huntsville.” 40, no. 2 (1972): 112–21.

Bunnell, Helen E. “Depression Memories.” 54, no. 3 (1986): 265–67.

Buck, Holly. “Utah 4-H, 1940–1960.” 72, no. 1 (2004): 69–84.

Callahan, Kathryn. “Sisters of the Holy Cross and Kearns- St. Ann’s Orphanage.” 78, no. 3 (2010): 254–74.

Carroll, Lavon B. “Melba Judge Lehner and Child Care in the State of Utah.” 61, no. 1 (1993): 40–62.

Carver, Sharon Snow. “Salt Lake City’s Reapers’ Club.” 64, no. 4 (1996): 108–20.

Constantino, Carlyle. “Emerging from the Archive: Helen M. Post’s Photographs of Twentieth-Century Navajos.” 87, no. 4 (Fall 2019): 316–33.

Cooley, Everett L. “In Memoriam: Fawn McKay Brodie.” 49, no. 2 (1981): 204–208.

Cooper-Rompato, Christine. “Women Inventors in Utah Territory.” 83, no. 3 (2015): 194–215.

Costa, Janeen Arnold. “A Struggle for Survival and Identity: Families in the Aftermath of the Castle Gate Mine Disaster.” 56, no. 3 (1988): 279–92.

Davis, Daniel. “‘Appreciating a Pretty Shoulder’: The Risqué Photographs of Charles Ellis Johnson.” 74, no. 2 (2006): 131–46.

Dix, Fae Decker. “The Josephine Diaries: Glimpses of the Life of Josephine Streeper Chase, 1881–94.” 46, no. 2 (1978): 167–83.

Driggs, Ken. “Who Shall Raise the Children? Vera Black and the Rights of Polygamous Utah Parents.” 60, no. 1 (1991): 27–46.

Dykman, Judy. “Utah’s Silver Queen and the ‘Era of the Great Splurge.’” 64, no. 1 (1996): 4–33.

Embry, Jessie. “Diploma Nursing at Salt Lake City Religious Based Hospitals.” 76, no. 3 (2008): 281–99.

Foster, Lawrence. “Polygamy and the Frontier: Mormon Women in Early Utah.” 50, no. 3 (1982): 268–89.

Gates, Susa Young. “From Impulsive Girl to Patient Wife: Lucy Bigelow Young.” 58, no. 3 (1977): 270–88.

Geary, Edward A. “A ‘Visitable Past’: Virginia Sorensen’s Sanpete.” 58, no. 3 (1990): 216–31.

Godfrey, Audrey M. “An Ogden Cottage Industry Goes Global.” 68, no. 3 (2000): 258–68.

———. “Housewives, Hussies, and Heroines, or the Women of Johnston’s Army.” 54, no. 2 (1986): 157–78.

Godfrey, Kenneth W. “Warmth, Friendship, and Scholarship: The Life and Times of Virginia Hanson.” 60, no. 4 (1992): 335–52.

Hales, David A. “School Days and School Marms.” 67, no. 2 (1999): 100–111.

———. “‘There Goes Matilda’: Millard County Midwife and Nurse.” 55, no. 3 (1987): 278–93.

Hanson, Virginia. “I Remember Hiawatha.” 40, no. 3 (1972): 265–74.

Harris, Linda W. “The Legend of Jessie Evans Smith.” 44, no. 4, (1976): 351–64.

Hefner, Loretta L. “The National Women’s Relief Society and the U.S. Sheppard-Towner Act.” 50, no. 3 (1982): 255–67.

Heimann, Phila. “Life More Sweet than Bitter.” 52, no. 4 (1984): 396–98.

Hill, Michelle. “Hoop Mania: Fashion Identity, and Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth-Century Utah.” 85, no 2 (2017): 127–44.

Howard, Mary W. “An Example of Women in Politics.” 38, no. 1 (1970): 61–64.

James, Laurence P., and Sandra C. Taylor. “‘Strong Minded Women’: Desdemona Stott Beeson and Other Hard Rock Mining Entrepreneurs.” 46, no. 2 (1978): 136–50.

James, Louise. “From Gunnison Utah, to Kagoshima, Japan: The Story of Mary Kimura Tokonami.” 73, no. 2 (2005): 175–84.

Johnson, Catherine M. “Emma Lucy Gates Bowen: Singer, Musician, Teacher.” 64, no. 4 (1996): 344–55.

Katsanevas, Michael, Jr. “The Emerging Social Worker and the Distribution of the Castle Gate Relief Fund.” 50, no. 3 (1982): 241–54.

Kaufman, Kathleen, and Dianne Knorr. “By Foot, by Horse, by Crummy: Louise Van Ee, School Nurse in Bingham Canyon, 1921–39.” 69, no. 1 (2001): 46–59.

Larson, Gustave O. “An Industrial Home for Polygamous Wives.” 38, no. 3 (1970): 263–75.

Larson, T. A. “Woman Suffrage in Western America.” 38, no. 1 (1970): 7–19.

Lieber, Constance L. “‘The Goose Hangs High’: Excerpts from the Letters of Martha Hughes Cannon.” 48, no. 1 (1980): 37–48.

Lubomudrov, Carol Ann. “A Woman State School Superintendent: Whatever Happened to Mrs. McVicker?” 49, no. 3 (1981): 254–61.

Lyman, Edward Leo. “Dr. Elizabeth Tracy: Angel of Mercy in the Pahvant Valley.” 66, no. 2 (1998): 118–38.

MacKay, Kathryn. “The Chocolate Dippers’ Strike of 1910.” 83, no. 1 (2015): 38–51.

———. “Sisters of Ogden’s Mount Benedict Monastery.” 77, no. 3 (2009): 242–59.

Madsen, Carol Cornwall. “Decade of Détente: The Mormon–Gentile Relationship in Nineteenth-Century Utah.” 63, no. 4 (1995): 298–319.

———. “‘Sisters at the Bar’: Utah Women in Law.” 61, no. 3 (1993): 208–32.

Maw, Herbert B. “In Memoriam: Marguerite L. Sinclair Reusser, 1895–1976.” 44, no. 4 (1976): 397–98.

McCormick, John S. “Red Lights in Zion: Salt Lake City’s Stockade, 1908–11.” 50, no. 2 (1982): 168–81.

McPherson, Robert S., and Mary Lou Mueller. “Divine Duty: Hannah Sorensen and Midwifery in Southeastern Utah.” 65, no. 4 (1997): 335–54.

Mortensen, A. R. “In Memoriam: Kate B. Carter, 1892– 1976.” 44, no. 4 (1976): 395–96.

Mulvay, Jill C. “The Liberal Shall be Blessed: Sarah M. Kimball.” 44, no. 3 (1976): 205–21.

———. “The Two Miss Cooks: Pioneer Professionals for Utah Schools.” 43, no. 4 (1975): 396–409.

Murphy, Miriam B. “‘If Only I Shall Have the Right Stuff’: Utah Women in World War I.” 58 no. 4 (1990): 334–51.

———. “Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael: Poetic Genius of Pioneer Utah.” 43, no. 1 (1975): 52–66.

———. “Women in the Utah Workforce from Statehood to World War II.” 50, no. 2 (1982): 139–59.

———. “The Working Women of Salt Lake City: A Review of the Utah Gazetteer, 1892–93.” 46, no. 2 (1978): 121–35.

Noble, Antonette Chambers. “Utah’s Rosies: Women in the Utah War Industries during World War II.” 59, no. 2 (1991): 123–45.

Noble, Kate. “A Great Adventure on Great Salt Lake—A True Story.” Edited by David E. Miller. 33, no. 3 (1965): 218–36.

Notarianni, Phillip F. “In Memoriam, Helen Zeese Papanikolas.” 73, no. 1 (2005): 87–89.

Oman, Susan Staker. “Nurturing LDS Primaries: Louie Felt and May Anderson, 1880–1940.” 49, no. 3 (1981): 262–75.

Pace, Josephine. “Kimberly as I Remember Her.” 35, no. 2 (1967): 112–20.

Papanikolas, Helen Z. “Growing up Greek in Helper, Utah.” 48, no. 3 (1980): 244–60.

———. “Magerou: The Greek Midwife.” 38, no. 1 (1970): 50–60.

Pearman, Irene Stoof. “The Memory Box.” 52, no. 4 (1982): 389–92.

Price, Raye. “Utah’s Leading Ladies of the Arts.” 38, no. 1 (1970): 65–85.

Pulsipher, Ernest. “A Few Personal Glimpses of Juanita Brooks.” 55, no. 3 (1987): 268–77.

Rands, Lorrie. “Food, Comfort, and a Bit of Home: Maude Porter and the Ogden Canteen, 1942–1946.” 84, no. 1 (2016): 70–85.

Reeder, Jennifer. “Making an (In)delible Mark: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Girls and their Manuscript Papers.” 85, no. 2 (2017): 273–78.

Rigby, Chris. “Ada Dwyer: Bright Lights and Lilacs.” 43, no. 1 (1975): 41–51.

Roper, Roger. “Homemakers in Transition: Women in Salt Lake City Apartments, 1910–1940.” 67, no. 4 (1999): 349–66.

Rose, Blanche E. “Early Utah Medical Practice.” 10 (1942): 14–32.

Rust, Val D. “Male and Female Teachers in Early Utah and the West.” 82, no. 2 (2014): 151–66.

Saunders, Richard. “Placing Juanita Brooks among the Heroes (and Villains) of Mormon and Utah History.” 87, no. 3 (2019): 218–37.

Schindler, Harold. “In Memoriam: Olive Woolley Burt, 1894–1981.” 49, no. 4 (1981): 388–90.

Scott, Patricia Lyn. “Jennie Anderson Froiseth and the Blue Tea.” 71, no. 1 (2003): 20–35.

Sillito, John R. “Women and the Socialist Party in Utah, 1900–1920.” 49, no. 3 (1981): 220–38.

Smith, Beatrice Scheer. “The 1872 Diary and Plant Collections of Ellen Powell Thompson.” 62, no. 2 (1994): 104–131.

Smith, Melvin. “In Memoriam: Juanita T. Brooks, 1898– 1989.” 58, no. 2 (1990): 201–203.

Smith, Michaele. “Rape Law in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Sexual Violence in Salt Lake City.” 85, no. 2 (2017): 224–37.

Solórzano, Armando, Lisa M. Ralph, and J. Lynn England. “Community and Ethnicity: Hispanic Women in Utah’s Carbon County.” 78, no. 1 (2010): 58–75.

Sorenson, Patricia H. “The Nurse: Marva Christensen Hanchett of Sevier County.” 85, no. 2 (1977): 163–72. Swensen, James R. “Dorothea Lange’s Portrait of Utah’s

Great Depression.” 70, no. 1 (2002): 39–62. Thatcher, Linda. “‘I Care Nothing for Politics’: Ruth May Fox, Forgotten Suffragist.” 49, no. 3 (1981): 239–53.

Thatcher, Linda, and John R. Sillito. “‘Sisterhood and Sociability’: The Utah Women’s Press Club, 1891–1928.” 53, no. 2 (1985): 144–56.

Turley, Kylie Nielsen. “Kanab’s All Woman Town Council, 1912–1914: Politics, Power Struggles, and Polygamy.” 73, no. 4 (2005): 308–28.

Uchida, Yoshiko. “Topaz, City of Dust.” 48, no. 3 (1980): 234–43.

Ursenbach, Maureen. “Three Women and the Life of the Mind.” 43, no. 1 (1975): 26–40.

Ventilla, Andrea. “The History of Saint Mary’s Academy in Salt Lake City 1875–1926.” 80, no. 3 (2012): 226–41. ———. “Women and the Kindergarten Movement in Utah.”

81, no. 2 (2013): 133–48. Vinson, Michael. “From Housework to Office Clerk: Utah’s

Working Women, 1870–1900.” 53, no. 4 (1985): 326–35. Wallis, Eileen V. “The Women’s Cooperative Movement in

Utah, 1869–1915.” 71, no. 4 (2003): 315–31.

Wahlquist, Loreen P. “Memories of a Uintah Basin Farm.” 42, no. 2 (1974): 165–77.

Weiss, Megan. “Crazy Quilt: Material Objects as Autobiography.” 86, no. 4 (2018): 366–69. Willie, Gertrude Chapoose. “I Am an American.” Interview by Norma Denver. 39, no. 2 (1971): 194–96.

Wilson, Marian Robertson. “Wanda Robertson: A Teacher for Topaz.” 69, no. 2 (2001): 120–38. White, Jean Bickmore. “Gentle Persuaders: Utah’s First

Women Legislators.” 38, no. 1 (1970): 31–49.

———. “Women’s Place is in the Constitution: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895.” 42, no. 4 (1974): 344– 69.

Young, Clara Decker. “A Woman’s Experiences with the Pioneer Band.” 14 (1946): 173–76.