and abigail scott duniway is an example of one of the great diaries. she describes what is happening between the people. she describes troubles that have been. she describes the landscape and the scenery and it is clear, you get a pretty good idea that she is a good writer. and that skill served her well later on in her career as a leader in the suffrage movement. abigail scott duniway was i think the third of 12 children born to her parents. they lived in illinois. the father was a farmer and her mother a farm wife. it was a very arduous life to lead, especially in the 19th century. so they had all these children. they, um, it appears as if the family was not really well-off. the girls particularly, they had little formal schooling, but they read the newspaper, they read fiction. abigail was very well read and is served her well and the mother was quite hesitant to come across the trail. she did not want to go west. she was, by that time, by the early 1850's she was really worn out by being a farm wife and raising all those children. and so, although