A Quokka Dreeds its Weird

I found it! The excerpt I read is from a collection of journals by women called "Revelations." The diarist is Martha Martin and the diary dates from the 1920's. The introduction to her excerpt says that her story was originally published in a "ladies' magazine style" - whatever that means. I looked up "Martha Martin" and found that she wrote at least two novels based on her experiences in Alaska, that Martha Martin is a pseudonym, and that there is some question about how much of her novel is actually true. The reviews on Amazon include some people who claim to be her descendants. http://www.amazon.com/Rugged-Land-Gold-Martha-Martin/dp/0940055007/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294459449&sr=1-3