DEDICATED TO
Those who are not ashamed
of economy.
A fat kitchen maketh a lean will.—­Franklin.
“Economy is a poor man’s revenue; extravagance
a rich man’s ruin.”
[Il...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The American Frugal Housewife
Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Francis Child