The Wasp (newspaper)
The Wasp (often referred to as Nauvoo Wasp) was a weekly
Mormon and its primary target audience was the Latter Day Saint residents of Nauvoo. The Wasp ceased publication when it was replaced by John Taylor's similarly themed Nauvoo Neighbor
.
The Wasp has been described as the "secular counterpart" of the Latter Day Saint Church's Times and Seasons.[1] The newspaper dedicated much of its space to answering the criticism by Thomas C. Sharp's and the anti-Mormon Warsaw Signal directed at the church and Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.[1]
See also
Latter Day Saints portal
- The Evening and the Morning Star
- Messenger and Advocate
- Elders' Journal
- Millennial Star
- List of Latter Day Saint periodicals
Notes
- ^ a b Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker & James B. Allen (2001). Mormon History. (Urbana: University of Illinois) p. 208.
References
- Jerry C. Jolley, "The Sting of the Wasp: Early Nauvoo Newspaper—April 1842 to April 1843", 22 BYU Studies (Fall 1982) 487–496.
- Darwin L. Hays, "Nauvoo Neighbor" in Daniel H. Ludlow (ed.) (1992). Encyclopedia of Mormonism. (New York: Macmillan) p. 999.
External links
- The Wasp PDF scan on Archive.org (16 April 1842–26 April 1843)
- The Wasp : partial archive, HTML format
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