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LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LYDIA MARIA See also:CHILD (1802-1880)  , See also:American author, was See also:born at See also:Medford, See also:Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also:February 18o2 . She was educated at an See also:academy in her native See also:town and by her See also:brother Convers See also:Francis (1795-1863), a Unitarian See also:minister and from 1842 to 1863 See also:Parkman See also:professor in the Harvard Divinity School . Her first stories, Hobomok (1824) and The Rebels (1825), were popular successes . She was a schoolmistress until 1828, when she married See also:David See also:Lee See also:Child (1794-1874), a brilliant but erratic See also:Boston lawyer and journalist . From 1826 to 1834 she edited The Juvenile See also:Miscellany, the first See also:children's monthly periodical in the See also:United States . About 1831 both she and her See also:husband began to identify themselves with the See also:anti-See also:slavery cause, and in 1833 she published An See also:Appeal for that Class of Americans called Africans, a stirring portrayal of the evils of slavery, and an See also:argument for immediate abolition, which had a powerful See also:influence in winning recruits to the anti-slavery cause . Henceforth her See also:time was largely devoted to the anti-slavery cause . From 184o to 1844, assisted by her husband, she edited the Anti-Slavery See also:Standard in New See also:York See also:City . After the See also:Civil See also:War she wrote much in behalf of the freedmen and of See also:Indian rights . She died at See also:Wayland, Massachusetts, on the loth of See also:October i 880 . In addition to the books above mentioned, she wrote many See also:pamphlets and See also:short stories and The (American) Frugal See also:House-wife (1829), one of the earliest American books on domestic See also:economy, The See also:Mother's See also:Book (1831), a See also:pioneer See also:cook-book republished in See also:England and See also:Germany, The Girls' Own Book (1831), See also:History of See also:Women (2 vols., 1832), See also:Good Wives (1833), The Anti-Slavery See also:Catechism (1836), Philothea (1836), a See also:romance of the See also:age of See also:Pericles, perhaps her best book, Letters from New York (2 vols., 1843-1845), Fact and Fiction (1847), The See also:Power of Kindness (1851), See also:Isaac T . Hopper: a True See also:Life (1853), The Progress of Religious Ideas through Successive Ages (3 vols., 1855), Autumnal Leaves (1857), Looking Toward Sunset (1864), The Freedman's Book (1865), A Romance of the See also:Republic (1867), and Aspirations of the See also:World (1878) .

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Lydia Maria Child, with a See also:Biographical Introduction by J . G . See also:Whittier (Boston, 1883) ; and a See also:chapter in T . W . See also:Higginson's Contemporaries (Boston, 1899) .

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