---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 15
number: 4
published: 1912-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "History of the Y. L. M. I. A.," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 4 (February 1912): 321.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1504unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1504unse
start_page: 321
end_page: 321
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1504unse
  publication_year: 1912
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# History of the Y. L. M. I. A.

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History of the Y. L. M. I. A. A volume of 488 pages has recently issued from the "Deseret News" presses. It gives a most interesting account of the Mutual Improvement cause, and the wonderful work accomplished by the young women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in their attempts at improving themselves in the variety of lines undertaken in their great organization. Besides the general history, which is complete and comprehensive, and the first in the Church treating of the organized work of women, there are and biographies of leading women workers in fifty-eight portraits —
the improvement cause. Besides this, the book contains a brief history of the M. I. A movement, with portraits of officers and general stake boards, of every stake of Zion. The frontispiece is a steel engraving of President Elmina S. Taylor, and there are several full page portraits of leading workers. The book was written by the well known author, Susa Young Gates, and revised and edited by Ann M.
Cannon and a history committee. Every home and library in the Church, and particularly every M. I. A. library, should have a copy of the work. Price $1.50.