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- Excert from review done by Utah Historical Quarterly, Lynne Watkins Jorgensen:
"Bartholomew admits that not all the sources for each audacious woman are equally valid, and she expresses a wish to contact descendants of women for whom she had to depend on a secondary source. Nevertheless, her clues to sources can become the first step for the researcher who utilizes her material. As an example, the source for Angelina Hawkins Piercy (wife of artist Frederick Piercy) provided her name only, no imformation. Piercy is not an example of an audacious Mormon woman. In fact, Angelina did not even stay with the Mormon church in England. However, by looking carefully into the branch records in London as directed by Bartholomew, a researcher will recognize Angelina's mother, Charlotte Hawkins, who singlehandedly led her large family (except Angelina) to Zion after the death of her husband from cholera in St. Louis. This source also identifies Angelina's sister, Lavinia Hawkins, who became a leading lady in the Salt Lake Theatre before she was abandoned and divorced by apostate John Hyde, Jr. This most audacious lady stayed strong in the church, ending up as a plural wife of Joseph Woodmansee and the sister-wife of Emily. Actually, there is so much good, solid information and so many clues to quality resources that this book is bound to become a major reference tool for historians and writers."
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