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.
Information on Lydia Maria Child - her life and work.
Selected quotations from the writings of Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist, novelist, and advice writer.
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.
An etext version of one of Lydia Maria Child's well-known abolitionist writings.
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.
Text of Child's poem that begins, "Over the river and through the wood."
Poetry by women: index for Lydia Maria Child - part of a larger collection of poetry written by women, much of it before the twentieth century. Gives insight into the lives and expectations of women in history.
From About's Guide to African American history, a reproduction of the biography of ex-slave Harriet Jacobs. The editor was
Lydia Maria Child.
Short excerpt from Lydia Maria Child about the Quaker preacher, Elias Hicks.
These questions will be useful not only to teachers including Child's work in the curriculum, but to students thinking about Child's work.
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.
"Slavery's Pleasant Homes" (1843)and other articles from 1839 through 1858.
About Lydia Maria Child's writings on Native Americans. Her imaginative treatment of Indian life, in
Hobomok, was groundbreaking -- this page includes an excerpt from that book.
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.
Christina Accomando, in a 1998
African American Review article, looks at how Harriet Jacobs'
Life of a Slave Girl helps in looking at antebellum legal reasoning. An extensive analysis of the book that has become a prototypical slave narrative.
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.
Listing of published works by Child in the Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
From the PBS website for the series Africans in America, a short entry on the contribution to the anti-slavery movement of Lydia Maria Child.
A short fiction piece by Lydia Maria Child, first published in
The Liberator.
