Carol Cornwall Madsen

Carol Cornwall Madsen (born 1930)[1] is an emeritus professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) where she was a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History. She also served as associate director of BYU's Women's Research Institute. She has written 50 scholarly articles and several books.

Mormon Women and the Struggle for Definition

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 4

Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 40–47
I am sensitive to that steadying hand as I attempt to identify and define what for an earlier generation of women identified and defined them as women—their relationship to the Church. 

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A Bluestocking in Zion: The Literary Life of Emmeline B. Wells

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 1

In the afternoon of 1 July 1895, Emmeline Wells and thirteen other Mormon literary lights and friends met in the parlor of Julia C. Howe’s home in memory of a deceased colleague, poet Hannah King.…

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Heloise and Abelard: Letters from Exile, The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 4

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