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Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child: an early American writer and activist, she is known for her fiction including imaginative depictions of Native American life, for her domestic advice books and for her anti-slavery writings.

Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child: an early American writer and activist, she is known for her fiction including imaginative depictions of Native American life, for her domestic advice books and for her anti-slavery writings.

Lydia Maria Child Quotes

Quotations from Lydia Maria Child, 19th century writer and reformer known for her work for the abolition of slavery and for her poem, "Over the River and Through the Wood."

Lydia Maria Child by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

A chapter from Higginson's Contemporaries, this biography represents the late 19th century view of Child's life by someone who shared many of her values.

Anti-Slavery Tracts: Correspondence Gov. Wise, John Brown

An etext version of one of Lydia Maria Child's well-known abolitionist writings.

Over the River and Through the Wood

Author of the poem which begins Over the river and through the wood, Lydia Maria Child was better known in her time for her novels and her antislavery writings.

Lydia Maria Child - Poetry

Index for poems by Lydia Maria Child, part of a larger collection of poetry written by women.

Anecdote of Elias Hicks

Short excerpt from Lydia Maria Child about the Quaker preacher, Elias Hicks.

Collected Correspondence 1817-1880

For the researcher, this information on the microform collection of Lydia Maria Child's lifelong correspondence will be invaluable. Her many correspondents are represented in the collection, including John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimke, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone.

From The Liberty Bell

"Slavery's Pleasant Homes" (1843)and other articles from 1839 through 1858.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Etext version of the autobiography of ex-slave Harriet Jacobs, edited by Lydia Maria Child. Site includes commentary, the book's introduction by Lydia Maria Child, and the entire etext.

Lydia Maria Child

From the University of Virginia, a short biography of Lydia Maria Child, with listings of her works available on the Net, and several short 19th century biographical entries on Child.

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