Author:Lydia Maria Child

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Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880)

An American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Native American rights activist, novelist, and journalist.

Lydia Maria Child

Works

• Hobomok: A tale of Early Times, by an American (1824)
• The Rebels; or, Boston before the Revolution (1825).
• Juvenile Miscellany (1826)
• The First Settlers of New England (1828)
• "The Indian Wife" (1828
• The American Frugal Housewife (1829)
• The Mother's Book (1831)
• The Girl's Own Book (1833)
• An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)
• The Oasis (1834)
• Philothea (1836)
• The Family Nurse (1837)
• The Liberty Bell (1842), included stories, such as "The Quadroons"
• "Slavery's Pleasant Homes: A Faithful Sketch" (1843, short story
• Letters from New York (1843)
• A Boy's Thanksgiving Day (1844)
• Rose Marian and the Flower Fairies (1850)
• Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life (1853)
• The Freedmen's Book (1865)
• A Romance of the Republic (1867)
• An appeal for the Indians (1868)

Works about Child

• Lydia M. Child, a September, 1846 series by Poe - The Literati of New York.
• Parody in A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• “Child, David Lee,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.
• “Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Child, Lydia Maria” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.