| 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.