"Throughout our Territory [there] are many ... sincere and faithful, noble women, well deserving of every honor contained herein, but there is of necessity a limit in the present work. It is ... the purpose of the compiler of these sketches ... to acquaint the many who are strangers to them with their labors and their virtues, to show as it were, what manner of people these 'Mormons' are." - Introduction - A pocket size paperback edition of the classic "Representative Women of Deseret." Perfect for Missionaries and people on the go. The Complete and Unabridged 1884 First Edition. Containing biographical sketches of 21 Mormon women, including:- Eliza R. Snow Pheobe Carter Woodruff. Zina D. H. Young. Bathseba W. Smith Helen Mar Whitney Sarah M. Kimball. ... and more. "If the eyes of the stranger may thereby be opened to a knowledge of their purity, integrity and faith in God, their heroic firmness and the trials they have endured without wavering in allegiance to their cause; if any may be convinced that this people are in earnest and in the right, and that God is with them; if they can realize that for men, Mormonism is not a cloak, a subterfuge and a selfish system; that our women are not from the dregs of civilization, led and controlled by stronger minds without a knowledge within themselves for their course, it will prove a joy and delight, a sweet return for my humble but earnest efforts." - The Author -