2007  AML Award: Biography

Presented to:
Carol Cornwall Madsen

For:
An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920

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In An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920, Carol Cornwall Madsen eloquently portrays the struggle of the nineteenth-century woman to define her role in a male-dominated society. Madsen follows the paths of Emmeline Wells “as a dedicated suffragist, a well-known editor, a friend and co-worker of many national leaders of the controversial women’s movement.” Emmeline, a prominent local LDS figure, made herself a powerful force on the national scene. Madsen reveals Emmeline as both a public and private person, a woman of ambition and tender feelings. Through carefully crafted writing, with much detail and insight, Madsen presents to the reader an incredible yet believable historical figure. Articulate in her writing, careful in her historical detail, and honest in her presentation, Carol Cornwall Madsen has rightfully earned the Association for Mormon Letters’ 2007 Award for Biography.

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