COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JUNE 20, 2018
Off beat Oregon: History No. 500 BEST
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Your Family Deserves The
Abigail Scott Duniway
thought she’d be re-
membered primarily
for her novels, but....
By Finn J.D. John
Special to The Sentinel
A
bigail Scott Duniway
is a name that’s very
familiar to most Or-
egon history buff s. She was a
pioneer, a journalist, a news-
paper editor and a tireless ad-
vocate for women’s suff rage.
All of this she managed to
accomplish while also fulfi ll-
ing all the obligations of an in-
valid’s wife and the mother of
six children.
But Duniway, during her
life, did not expect any of those
things to be what she was most
remembered for. She expected
— or, rather, hoped — that af-
ter her death her novels would
be collected and published,
and that future readers would
“marvel at the facts therein
portrayed as much as the stu-
dent of today is marveling at
the progress of the world since
the discoveries of Christopher
Columbus or the explorations
of Lewis and Clark.”
Th at, of course, didn’t hap-
pen.
Instead, most people don’t
even realize that she wrote any
novels.
In part that’s because none
of her novels are very easy for a
modern reader to get through
— although it’s kind of surpris-
ing how well they do hold up,
considering how diff erent was
the era in which they were writ-
ten. As English professor Debra
Shein of Idaho State University
points out, most novels in the
1870s were neither character
driven, nor plot driven — they
were action-driven, like para-
bles or allegories.
Th at meant most of them
were “a song with a message,”
intended to manipulate the
reader into better or more vir-
tuous patterns of thought or
behavior — something modern
read-ers have little tolerance
for. It also meant the characters
in them had a tendency to be
personifi cations of virtues or
vices — the mustache-twirling
Dastardly Villains, the placid-
ly faithful Saintly Widows, the
relentlessly cheerful Virtuous
Youths, and so forth.
In other words, these nov-
els are works of advocacy. Or,
to put it in Duniway’s own
words from the introduction
to her fi rst novel, “Skeptics,
you who laugh at the Bible,
who mock at the mission
of the lowly Nazarene ... ye
who live merely that you may
amass rich-es, eat, drink and
die — this book is not for you.
I leave older and wiser heads
to parry your studied blows,
while I turn, in re-spect and
confi dence, to the lenient, in-
telligent, pious and elevated,
for encouragement and assis-
tance.”
Of all the novels Duniway
wrote, only the fi rst and the
last were actually published in
book form during her life. Th e
fi rst one, in fact, was the fi rst
novel commercially published
in Oregon (unless one classifi es
Margaret Jewett Smith’s 1854
memoir, Th e Grains; or, Pas-
boy’s death; the
heroine, who for
some reason has
feelings for him,
disguises herself
as the dead son’s
ghost and rattles
a bag of teeth in
her
eventually
successful quest
to get him to face
what he’s done,
repent and marry
her.
In
Ethel
Graeme’s
Des-
tiny: A Story of
Real Life, the
entrepreneurial
heroine is tricked
into marriage by a
Abigail Scott Duniway as she appeared in drunken sea cap-
tain who treats
the late 1800s. (Horner/Gazette-Times)
her like an ATM
machine, leaving
sages in the Life of Ruth Rover,
her penniless at
as a novel).
the end of a life in which she’s
Duniway’s fi rst novel was made her fortune several times
Captain Gray’s Company; or, over only to have him show up
Crossing the Plains and Living and drink it all away.
in Oregon (S.J. McCormick,
Edna and John: A Romance
1859).
of Idaho Flat has a similar
It was heavily based on the theme. Edna is swept off her
Scott family’s journey to Ore- feet by John, who turns out to
gon in 1852 over the Or-egon be a callow idiot; while he’s off
Trail. Th e last novel, From the digging hopefully in the gold
West to the West: Across the fi elds, she makes a fortune as
Plains to Oregon (Chicago: a restaurateur, but when he
A.C. McClurg, 1905), was ba- returns and starts spending it
sically a re-write of Captain frivolously and abusing her,
Gray’s Company. Neither of she learns that if she divorc-
these novels represents her at es him, he will get everything:
her best — although it is prob- restaurant, money, and even
ably safe to say that they do the children.
represent her at her least con-
Meanwhile her mother, aft er
troversial.
being widowed, is kicked out of
Arguably, Duniway’s best her lifelong home because the
work — and unquestionably Dower Acts have enabled her
her most infl uential — was husband’s creditors to seize all
represented by the 21 novels her property, and her aunt is
she wrote and serialized in her left penniless aft er her late hus-
newspaper, Th e New North- band turns out to have been a
west, and later her magazine, bigamyst. At the end, denied a
Th e Pacifi c Empire.
divorce, Edna actually buys a
Aft er she retired from jour- gun; the story ends before we
nalism, Duniway spent years learn whether she uses it or
revising these novels and sub- not.
mitting them to book publish-
Margaret Rudson: A Pioneer
ing houses back East. None Story is less overtly subversive,
were picked up. Th is most like- but in other ways it’s more so.
ly is because at the time Dun- It’s the story of a wealthy heir-
iway was submitting stories to ess, who is also an inventor, en-
these conservative, male-run trepreneur, and physician, and
publishing concerns, she was her devoted fi ancé. Th e two of
just too hot to handle.
them travel out West to found a
To be fair, the stories were socialistic commune in which
pretty hot. Judge Dunson’s men and women enjoy equal-
Secret: An Oregon Story is a ity before the law and domestic
black comedy of sorts in which chores — cooking, child care,
the judge’s “secret” is that he cleaning, etc. — are shared
once had a temper tantrum equally by men and women
and tore out all his young son’s and handled communally.
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Rudson and her fi ancé are
married, and adopt a hyphenat-
ed surname — Rudson-Horner
— which was at the time con-
sidered a scandalously radical
thing to do.
Most of Duniway’s novels,
particularly the ones serialized
in Th e New Northwest, are a
little rough, like second draft s.
Th at’s because they were told in
serial form over many weeks,
like a soap opera; something
interesting had to happen in
every episode. Th is worked
great in its original form, but
the relentless procession of in-
tense moments of drama can
be wearying if read all at once;
there’s a reason why no one
binge-watches “Days of Our
Lives” or “Th e Young and the
Restless.”
Also, Duniway didn’t always
fi nish writing a novel before
starting to publish it (actually,
she may never have done that);
so, sometimes she found her-
self boxed in by events of previ-
ous weeks and had to break the
narrative thread to solve the
problem. Still, they were very
popular, and made more of a
contribution to the campaign
for women’s suff rage than most
people realize.
And to the women of Port-
land, in the late 1800s, they
rang true to life, and they sent
a strong and welcome message:
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