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See also: American author, was See also: born at See also: Medford, Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also: February 18o2
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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 professor in the Harvard Divinity School
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Her first stories, Hobomok (1824) and The Rebels (1825), were popular successes
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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
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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
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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 influence in winning recruits to the anti-slavery cause
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Henceforth her See also: time was largely devoted to the anti-slavery cause
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From 184o to 1844, assisted by her husband, she edited the Anti-Slavery See also: Standard in New See also: York City
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After the See also: Civil War she wrote much in behalf of the freedmen and of See also: Indian rights
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She died at See also: Wayland, Massachusetts, on the loth of See also: October i 880
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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 Catechism (1836), Philothea (1836), a See also: romance of the age of See also: Pericles, perhaps her best book, Letters from New York (2 vols., 1843-1845), Fact and Fiction (1847), The Power of Kindness (1851), Isaac T
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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 Republic (1867), and Aspirations of the See also: World (1878)
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See The Letters of See also: Lydia Maria Child, with a See also: Biographical Introduction by J
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G
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See also: Whittier (Boston, 1883) ; and a chapter in T
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Higginson's Contemporaries (Boston, 1899)
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