Plains Woman: The Diary of Martha Farnsworth, 1882a 1922

Plains Woman: The Diary of Martha Farnsworth, 1882a 1922

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Author/Contributor(s): Springer, Marlene ; Springer, Haskell S
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Date: 04/07/1986
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW

Among the numerous diaries published recently as scholars probe women's history, Farnsworth's is a real find. --Sally Mitchell

The publication now of books like Martha Farnsworth's has contributed to radical revisions of women's history and reassessment of women's skills as writers. --Elizabeth Hampsten

. . . superb edition of the diary of Kansas pioneer Martha Farnsworth . . . a fact-filled, revealing account of an extraordinary-but-ordinary woman . . . --American Quarterly

. . . the inside story of a women's life in the middle of America . . . --Bloomsbury Review

A Kansas teacher, housewife, photographer, and suffragist, Martha Farnsworth compulsively recorded her life in middle America during a period of tremendous social and cultural change.