Synopses & Reviews
"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.
Synopsis
This book is an edition of the 40-year diary of Martha Fransworth, Kansan, who from 1882 to 1922 kept a daily record extraordinarily rich in public and private endeavors. Not only historically interesting but emotionally moving, her record is of a lower middle-class life lived just this side of--chronically--the American frontier.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Editorial Note
The Diary of Martha Farnsworth, 1882-1922
Epilogue
Notes
Index