GENERAL INDEX.
Allusions to his Parents.
Anecdotes of Childhood.
Allusions to Sarah his Wife.
Allusions to Joseph Whitall.
Anecdotes of Apprenticeship.
His Religious Expe...
Read more
Lydia Maria Child (11 February 1802-20 October 1880), abolitionist and popular author, was born into a large family at Medford, Massachusetts. At twelve her mother died and she was sent to live with h...
Read more
For half a century, from 1824, when Lydia Maria Child's daring novel of interracial marriage, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times, greeted a shocked public, to the turbulent Reconstruction era, which found...
Read more
Lydia Maria Child ranks among the most influential of nineteenth-century American women writers. She was renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice and a champion of excluded gro...
Read more
The popularity and moral force of the American author Lydia Maria Francis Child (1802-1880) contributed to the impact radical abolitionists exerted on the antislavery debate that preceded the Civil Wa...
Read more