American abolitionist, author, and activist (1802–1880)
Lydia Maria Child
An 1882 engraving of Child
Born
Lydia Maria Francis February 11, 1802 Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
October 20, 1880(1880-10-20) (aged 78) Wayland, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place
North Cemetery Wayland, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation
Abolitionist
activist
novelist
journalist
Literary movement
Abolitionist, feminism
Notable works
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
"Over the River and Through the Wood"
Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times.
Spouse
David Lee Child
(m. 1828; died 1874)
Relatives
Convers Francis (brother)
Signature
Lydia Maria Child (néeFrancis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s. At times she shocked her audience as she tried to take on issues of both male dominance and white supremacy in some of her stories.
Despite these challenges, Child may be most remembered for her poem "Over the River and Through the Wood." Her grandparents' house, which she wrote about visiting, was restored by Tufts University in 1976 and stands near the Mystic River on South Street, in Medford, Massachusetts.
LydiaMariaChild (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist...
"The Quadroons" is a short story written by American writer LydiaMariaChild (1802-1880) and published in The Liberty Bell in 1842. The influential short...
biography of John Brown. Thayer and Eldridge demanded a preface by LydiaMariaChild. Jacobs confessed to Amy Post, that after suffering another rejection...
Eldridge agreed to publish her manuscript and initiated her contact with LydiaMariaChild, who became the editor of the book, which was finally published in...
Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for...
"Over the River and Through the Woods", is a Thanksgiving poem by LydiaMariaChild, originally published in 1844 in Flowers for Children, Volume 2. Although...
with his wife, LydiaMariaChild. Child was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts, on July 8, 1794, and graduated from Harvard in 1817. Child worked for some...
2019. Jackson, Constance Lillie (2008). Over the River--: Life of LydiaMariaChild, Abolitionist for Freedom, 1802-1880 : a Companion Book to the Epic...
the nineteenth-century American author and human rights campaigner LydiaMariaChild. Her first novel, published in 1824 under the pseudonym "An American"...
Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Martineau, LydiaMariaChild, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Josephine S. Griffing...
Class of Americans Called Africans is an 1833 book by American writer LydiaMariaChild, which advocated the immediate emancipation of the slaves without...
story by LydiaMariaChild (introduced the literary character of the tragic mulatto) Slavery's Pleasant Homes, 1843 short story by LydiaMariaChild Uncle...
Pillars are fallen at thy feet... (Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage, LydiaMariaChild) I am come in sorrow. (Lord Jim, Conrad) I am come in my Father's...
Massachusetts and was named for her great-great-aunt, abolitionist LydiaMariaChild. Before her writing career, Peelle worked as a speechwriter for the...
street." After Cassatt's parents and sister Lydia joined Cassatt in Paris in 1877, Degas, Cassatt, and Lydia were often to be seen at the Louvre studying...
canonized a saint by the Catholic Church, on July 7, 1946. She was born Maria Francesca Cabrini on July 15, 1850, in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, in the Lombard...
and LydiaMariaChild were particularly influential to Higginson's abolitionist enthusiasm during the early 1840s. Higginson claimed that Child's book...
early American brown bread, as described in the 1832 cookbook by LydiaMariaChild, The American Frugal Housewife. It is thought to have come from the...
States in 1972. They had several children including broadcast journalist Maria Shriver. Eunice Mary Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on July...
with a ballet tour of Europe. With Paschen, Tallchief had her only child, Elise Maria Paschen (born 1959), who became an award-winning poet and executive...
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