See also:

• LYDIA

LYDIA MARIA See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

CHILD (1802-1880)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MEDFORD

Medford, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 18o2 . She was educated at an See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy in her native See also:

• TOWN

town and by her See also:

• BROTHER

brother Convers See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis (1795-1863), a Unitarian See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister and from 1842 to 1863 See also:

• PARKMAN, FRANCIS (1823-1893)

Parkman See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

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
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• LEE
• LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
• LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
• LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
• LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
• LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
• LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
• LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
• LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
• LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
• LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
• LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
• LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
• LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)

Lee See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

Child (1794-1874), a brilliant but erratic See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston lawyer and journalist . From 1826 to 1834 she edited The Juvenile See also:

• MISCELLANY

Miscellany, the first See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children's monthly periodical in the See also:

• UNITED

United States . About 1831 both she and her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband began to identify themselves with the See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-See also:

• SLAVERY

slavery cause, and in 1833 she published An See also:

• APPEAL

Appeal for that Class of Americans called Africans, a stirring portrayal of the evils of slavery, and an See also:

• ARGUMENT

argument for immediate abolition, which had a powerful See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence in winning recruits to the anti-slavery cause . Henceforth her See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

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
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

Standard in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City . After the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War she wrote much in behalf of the freedmen and of See also:

• INDIAN

Indian rights . She died at See also:

• WAYLAND, FRANCIS (1796–1865)

Wayland, Massachusetts, on the loth of See also:

• OCTOBER

October i 880 . In addition to the books above mentioned, she wrote many See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets and See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stories and The (American) Frugal See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House-wife (1829), one of the earliest American books on domestic See also:

• ECONOMY

economy, The See also:

• MOTHER

Mother's See also:

• BOOK

Book (1831), a See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer See also:

• COOK
• COOK, ALBERT STANBURROUGH (1853– )
• COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (1829–1883)
• COOK, ELIZA (1818–1889)
• COOK, JAMES (1728-1779)
• COOK, THOMAS (1808-1892)

cook-book republished in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, The Girls' Own Book (1831), See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• WOMEN

Women (2 vols., 1832), See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good Wives (1833), The Anti-Slavery See also:

• CATECHISM (from Gr. Karnxeiv, teach by word of mouth)

Catechism (1836), Philothea (1836), a See also:

• ROMANCE

romance of the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of See also:

• PERICLES (49o-429 B.C.)

Pericles, perhaps her best book, Letters from New York (2 vols., 1843-1845), Fact and Fiction (1847), The See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

Power of Kindness (1851), See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac T . Hopper: a True See also:

• LIFE

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 (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic (1867), and Aspirations of the See also:

• WORLD

World (1878) .

See The Letters of See also:

• LYDIA

Lydia Maria Child, with a See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

Biographical Introduction by J . G . See also:

• WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF (1807-1892)

Whittier (Boston, 1883) ; and a See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter in T . W . See also:

• HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH (1823—1911)

Higginson's Contemporaries (Boston, 1899) .