Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child (born February 11, 1802 in Medford , Massachusetts , as Lydia Maria Francis , † October 20, 1880 in Wayland , Massachusetts) was an American writer , abolitionist and suffragette.
life and work
Early on in literary activity, especially educational writing, Child published a large number of writings on the education, training and refinement of the female sex, which were widely used. Of her numerous stories are Hobomok, an Indian Story , a love story about an Indian and a white woman, the novel Philothea , Looking Toward Sunset , Romance of the Republic (1867), and of her other writings the History of the Condition of Women (1835 ) and especially The Progress of Religions Ideas Through Successive Ages (new edition 1870, three volumes) the best known. She was also tirelessly active in the cause of slave emancipation from 1833, namely in the Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans , the Letters from New York (1843) and The Right Way the Safe Way (1861).
Works
- Hobomok: A tale of Early Times, by an American , 1824
- The Rebels , 1825
- Juvenile Miscellany , 1826
- The Frugal Housewife , 1829
- An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans , 1833
- Letters from New York , 1843
- The Right Way the Safe Way , 1861
- Looking Toward Sunset , 1864
- The Freedmen's Book , 1865
- An Appeal for the Indians , 1868
literature
- Letters of Lydia MC Boston 1882; with biography of Whittier.
- Child, Lydia Maria , in: Jenny Uglow , Maggy Hendry: Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography . London: Macmillan, 1999 (3rd edition), ISBN 0333725735 , p. 123
Web links
- Lydia Maria Child. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Biography and work (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Child, Lydia Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Francis, Lydia Maria (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer, abolitionist and suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Medford, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1880 |
| Place of death | Wayland (Massachusetts) |