Jill Mulvay Derr

JILL MULVAY DERR {[email protected]}, now an independent historian, formerly worked in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History at Brigham Young University. Her published studies of Latter-day Saint women span four decades and include her longtime and ongoing work on Eliza R. Snow. She and her husband, C. Brooklyn Derr, are the parents of four children and eleven grandchildren.

Missing and Restoring Meaning

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 2

Fifty years ago I was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts in a shotgun apartment just off Mass. Ave. at Central Square: 22 Magazine Street, Apt. 3. Spring 1971 marked the last months of my master of…

Fruitless Wait | Elisabeth Macdonald, Watch for the Morning

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 4

Kate and Mary Ann Hamilton, mother and daughter, are nineteenth-century Mormon women whose romantic dreams are serially shattered during the forty years spanned in this novel, a story, hopes its author, that “has something to…

Outside the Mormon Hierarchy: Alternative Aspects of Institutional Power

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 4

By 1900, the general leadership of the Relief Society, the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, and the Primary Association had together made plans for a woman’s building for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

An Endowment of Power: The LDS Tradition

Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 3

Latter-day Saints share a belief in and a commitment to the Restoration. The LDS and RLDS churches declare that God spoke to the Prophet Joseph Smith that a people might by covenant be commissioned. Latter-day…