argues Abish nevertheless leaves a strong impression on readers because her response to the situation she finds herself in is so active, because she is a woman (in a book where women appear infrequently), and because the Book of Mormon narrative takes place, if only for a few verses, effectively from her perspective, inviting empathy from the book's audience. Howard W. Hunter, a president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church; the largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement) described Abish in a speech as one who made meaningful contributions in the world: "Abish, servant to the Lamanite queen… made contributions unacknowledged by the eyes of man but not unseen by the eyes of God". Novelist Mette Ivie Harrison's 2019 The Book of Abish uses the negative space in Abish's story as room to work in and a place to jump off from, and she crafts a 190-page narrative starring Abish as the youngest daughter of a large family that experiences reversals of fortune similar to Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess (1905). Harrison's Abish is a "woman of destiny", reviewer Luisa Perkins writes, and comparable to the biblical Queen Esther. A thesis written in 2001 reports finding two poems written about Abish, by Donnell Hunter and Mildred Hunt respectively, as well as four paintings: Abish and the Queen by Sherrie H. Thomas; Women of Exceeding Faith: The Queen and Abish by Ann Croft; Lamoni's Queen by Blanche P. Wilson; and Because of Thy Exceeding Faith by Sherilynn Boyer Doty. The last of these portrays all four of the narrative's principal figures: Abish, Ammon, Lamoni, and the Lamanite queen. The Book of Mormon Art Catalog has since catalogued several additional artworks depicting Abish. Starting in 2019, the LDS Church released a series of video depictions of Book of Mormon narratives. Amber Weiss plays Abish, and Weiss describes Abish as being someone who teaches women that "we are powerful, and we have the ability to do big things". See also Anti-Nephi-Lehies Mormon feminism Mormonism and women Outline of the Book of Mormon References Notes General references Further reading External links "Abish and the Queen" gallery at the Book of Mormon Art Catalog Alma 19:15–29, the Book of Mormon passage in which Abish appears, on Wikisource Book of Mormon people Mormonism and women