Publications on Relief Society

Publications by the Relief Society

A Collection of Sacred Hymns  (1835)
Selected and Compiled by Emma Smith (Elect Lady)

Minute Book of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo   (1842-1844)
Recorded by Eliza R. Snow, R.S. Secretary

Woman’s Exponent  (1872-1914)

Relief Society Magazine   (1914-1970)

Handbook of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Relief Society, General Board of the Relief Society, Salt Lake City, UT, 1931

A Centenary of Relief Society, 1842-1942
Relief Society, General Board of the Relief Society, Salt Lake City, UT, 1942

A Woman’s Choices: The Relief Society
(Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)  Smith, Barbara B. & Relief Society,
Deseret Book Co., Salt Lake City, UT, 1984

Eye to Eye, Heart to Heart
(Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,  Smith, Barbara B. & Relief Society,
Deseret Book Co., Salt Lake City, UT, 1992

Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011

Publications About Relief Society

Women of Mormondom,  Tullidge, Edward W. (with Snow, Eliza R. )
New York, NY, 1877

Our Own Society
Hoole, Daryl V.,  Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1979

The Relief Society Magazine: A Legacy Remembered 1914-1970
Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, UT, 1982

Elect Ladies
Peterson, J., & Gaunt, L. R., Deseret Book Co., Salt Lake City, UT,  1990

Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society
Derr, Jill Mulvay; Cannon, Janath Russell, & Maureen Ursenback Beecher,
Deseret Book Co.  Salt Lake City, Utah, 1992

Women of Nauvoo
Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel and Jeni Broberg Holzapfel, Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, UT, 1992

Relief Society in the Twentieth Century
Smith, Barbara B. and Shirley W. Thomas, Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000

Sweet is the Work: How Relief Society Helps Bring Women to Christ
Smoot, Mary Ellen W., Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000

The Ready Resource for Relief Society: Volume Four
Shaffer, Kimberly S. & Relief Society, CFI,  Springville, Utah,  2008

The Ready Resource for Relief Society
Boice, Trina, CFI, Springville, Utah, 2012

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History
Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, Matthew J. Grow, editors,
Church Historian’s Press, Salt Lake City, 2016

The Witness of Women: Firsthand Experiences and Testimonies from the Restoration
Janiece Johnson, Jennifer Reeder, Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, 2016

At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women
Jennifer Reeder, Kate Holbook, Church Historian’s Press, Salt Lake City, 2017

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Ulrich, Laural Thatcher, Knopf, New York, 2017

Monographs About Relief Society

Woman’s Sphere in Utah
Tullidge, Edward W., Phrenological Journal, Volume: 49, pp. 82-83, 1869

Sketch of the Origin of the Relief Society
Snow, Eliza R., The Woman’s Exponent, Volume: 1, p. 2, 1869

Items from the Diary of Joseph Smith the Prophet on Relief Society
Smith, Joseph, Jr., The Woman’s Exponent, Volume: 1, pp. 5-13, 1877

What Joseph Smith Did for the Womanhood of the Church
Gates, Susa Young,  Improvement Era, Volume: 9, pp. 179-83, Dec. 1905

Selling the Good Life: A Look at Advertising in the Relief Society Magazine, 1914-1970
Gates, Susa Young,  Improvement Era, Volume: 9, pp. 179-83, Dec. 1905

The Relief Society in Great Britain
Lund, Josephine B.,  Millennial Star, Volume: 93, pp. 163-67, 169, March 12, 1931

The Women of the Mormon Battalion
Lyman, Amy Brown, Relief Society Magazine, Volume: 35, pp. 436-40 , 1948

The Relief Society
Carter, Kate B. (Compiler), Our Pioneer Heritage, Volume: 14, pp. 61-124, 1971

In Their Own Behalf: The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
Van Wagenen, Lola,  Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume: 24, pp. 31-43, 1991

Women of Destiny: Reflections on the Relief Society Declaration
Ford, Jennie J.,Eagle Gate, Salt Lake City, UT, 2002

New Scholarship on Latter-day Saint Women in the Twentieth Century : Selections from the Women’s History Initiative Seminars 2003-2004
Schmid,  Sarah A., Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History, SLC, Utah,  2005