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

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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.