The writings and causes of Eliza Lee (Cabot) Follen intersect several historical and intellectual currents in the nineteenth century. Her contributions to children's literature, her work with William Ellery Channing and the Sunday School Movement, and her tireless efforts in the abolitionist cause reveal a woman who took full advantage of her education to further humanitarian ends. She wrote sentimental domestic fiction, children's poetry, and antislavery tracts; she edited both The Child's Friend and the Christian Teachers' Manual, publications of the American Sunday School Union; and she wrote for the abolitionist periodical The Liberty Bell. Viewed as a whole, her life and work exhibit a remarkable coherence; from her early efforts in children's education at Channing's Federal Street Church in Boston to her passionate antislavery tracts of 1855 addressed to the mothers of the free states, Follen consistently ventured outside her domestic borders while simultaneously arguing for the family's...