Served in<span> state legislatures</span>
I want to say either diaries or fashion magazines. Diaries are much more story like and could be a little lathered up for lack of a better word. However I would go with fashion magazines, which talk about whatever's popular at the time, giving you a quick general outlook on the time period.
She has a darlinhair framing her face i think.
They ran up the hill in the heavy rain. let's label the parts oof the sentence
They-subject
ran-verb
ran up the hill-predicate
So they is being used as the subject