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	Lydia Maria Child
		Lydia Maria Child (February 11, 1802-Oct. 20, 1880) was a novelist, editor, journalist and scholar who produced a body of work remarkable for its brilliance, originality and variety, much of it inspired by a strong sense of justice and love of freedom.
		Born in Medford, Massachusetts, Lydia was the youngest of seven children of Susannah Rand Francis and Convers Francis, a successful baker and businessman.
		Possessed of an eager, inquiring mind, Lydia missed his encouragement in her studies, but she was free to use the library of the Rev. David Osgood, the First Parish minister.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/lydiamariachild.html (1826 words)

	Lydia Maria Child - Encyclopedia.com
		She and her husband (David Lee Child, whom she married in 1828) were devoted to the antislavery cause; she wrote widely read pamphlets on the subject in addition to editing (1841-49) the National Anti-Slavery Standard, a New York City weekly newspaper.
		Dividing religion from theology in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok.
		Liberal visions of reconstruction: Lydia Maria child's a romance of the republic and George Washington cable's the Grandissimes.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Child-Ly.html (1067 words)

	Lydia Maria Child
		Lydia Maria Child (February 11, 1802-Oct. 20, 1880) was a novelist, editor, journalist and scholar who produced a body of work remarkable for its brilliance, originality and variety, much of it inspired by a strong sense of justice and love of freedom.
		Born in Medford, Massachusetts, Lydia was the youngest of seven children of Susannah Rand Francis and Convers Francis, a successful baker and businessman.
		Possessed of an eager, inquiring mind, Lydia missed his encouragement in her studies, but she was free to use the library of the Rev. David Osgood, the First Parish minister.
	www25.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/lydiamariachild.html (1826 words)

	Lydia Maria Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Child who is known for her work in the women's rights and antislavery movements and for her pioneering role in children's literature, was a Wayland resident for the last twenty-seven years of her life.
		Child's first book, Hobomok, a romantic novel that dealt with the then scandalous notion of an Indian warrior in love with a white woman, catapulted her to fame when she was just 22.
		Lydia Maria Child formed warm friendships with a number of local residents: the Rev. Edmund Hamilton Sears, minister of the First Parish Church and author of the hymn, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", and her little next door neighbor, Alfred Wayland Cutting, who grew-up to be Wayland’s well-known photographer.
	j.w.d.home.comcast.net /whs/Lydia_Maria_Child/lydia_maria_child.htm (1470 words)

	Lydia Maria Francis Child Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Out of necessity rather than choice Child became the breadwinner of the couple, a role that was to keep her actively publishing and editing for the remainder of her life.
		They speak of Maria Child's withdrawal from cliques of reformers and antislavery organizations, though clearly her hermitage was constantly broken by meetings with the likes of Catherine Beecher and Margaret Fuller.
		Lydia Maria Child's letters also chart her critical attitude to religious and social injustice in general.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/C/Child.html (1282 words)

	H-Net Review: Sarah C. Hand on The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia ...
		Child was left alone with her desolate and difficult father, guilt over her mothers death, her favorite brother in college, her sister Mary married and moved away, and her sister Susannah soon to die.
		Child's years were spent not in domesticity and gentility, but in a constant struggle to repay her husband's debts by taking in boarders, resuming teaching, and constantly moving to live with friends and in boarding houses when she and her husband could not afford a place of their own.
		Despite the Hobbesian profile that Child's life outlines of the life-cycle of a nineteenth-century woman, Karcher reveals the triumphs of Child's ordeals, her evolution and awakening as a woman, and her significant role in shaping abolitionism and early feminism.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4116910131568 (2352 words)

	Biographical Sketch of Lydia Sigourney
		Lydia Howard Huntley was born in Norwich, Connecticut on September 1, 1791 to Ezekiel Huntley and Zerviah Wentworth.
		Their only child, she was named after her father's first wife, Lydia Howard, a woman he had married soon after participating in the Revolutionary war.
		Lydia had many fond memories of her father and mother whom she esteemed a great deal.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/sigourney/bio.html (823 words)

	Lydia Child Biography and Summary
		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 War.
		Lydia Maria Francis was born in Medford, Mass., of...
		Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) was a prolific author and a founder of the American abolitionist movement.
	www.bookrags.com /Lydia_Child (397 words)

	She Said it - Remember This (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's 1830 homage to Lydia Maria Child named her "the first woman in the republic," it was a tribute to genius "as versatile as it is brilliant," and praised the remarkable contributions of her activism and intellect.
		Child grew up in a white, middle-class family of modest means, the youngest of six children.
		Lydia Maria Child was a tremendous influence on the politics, literature, and culture of the nineteenth century.
	www.saidit.org /archives/aug00/rememberthis.html (584 words)

	African American Registry: Lydia Child spoke against slavery
		Lydia Maria Francis Child* was born on this date in 1802.
		In 1839 Child and two other women, Lucretia Mott and Maria Weston Chapman were elected to the executive committee of the Anti-Slavery Society.
		This was reflected in the publication of History of the Condition of Woman in Various Ages and Nations and An Appeal for the Indians.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1552/Lydia_Child_spoke_against_slavery (261 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary ...
		The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction: Lydia Child (1802-1880)
		Abolitionist Lydia Child (1802-1880), who greatly influenced Margaret Fuller, was a leader of this network.
		An activist, Child founded a private girls' school, founded and edited the first journal for children in the United States, and published the first anti- slavery tract, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, in 1833.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/LIT/child.htm (153 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		The youngest of seven children born in Medford, MA, Lydia Maria Child spent her life advocating for the rights of slaves and women.
		Child was also a founding member of the Massachusetts Women’s Suffrage Association and authored The History of the Conditions of Women in Various Ages and Nations, a publication that went on to influence the next generation of suffragists.
		In addition to her activist work, Child also founded the country’s first children’s magazine, Juvenile Miscellany, and wrote many volumes dedicated to domestic endeavors.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=181 (265 words)

	Edmonia Lewis biography
		Another note is that it wasn't until 1864 that the first recorded mention of Edmonia's heritage appeared, through an interview-article by Lydia Maria Child in her abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.
		In claiming her given name as "Wild Fire" and describing her mother and herself as wild, Edmonia was probably creating the persona for her personality, which she adhered to and insisted upon throughout her career -- of never being tamed, restrained or contained.
		Lydia Maria Child scolded her for sculpting it into marble without a commission, and eventually Lydia withdrew her support.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/lewi-edm.htm (2140 words)

	Lydia Child - Wikinfo
		Lydia Marie Child (February 11, 1802, Medford - July 7, 1880, Wayland) was an American abolitionist, novelist, and journalist.
		She was born in Medford, Massachusetts to Susannah Rand Francis and Convers Francis.
		In 1839, Lydia Child was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and became editor of the society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1841.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Lydia_Child (553 words)

	Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
		Child characteristically uses a conventional style and appears to be writing from a posture relegated to women novelists and to commonsense male news analysts.
		With Child, this seems easy because--as her style suggests--she appears to be appealing to the common man and the common woman; she is not writing for a "special" audience of "advanced thinkers."
		Perhaps it would be interesting to contrast Child's newspaper rhetoric with that of Garrison--or even to contrast her Appeal with Angelina Grimké's Appeal and with Sarah M.
	www.college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/child.html (602 words)

	Lydia Maria Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Lydia Maria Child died in 1880, she was eulogized as one of the most capable women of her generation: humanitarian, social critic, editor, fiction writer, and occasional poet.
		Child’s early connection to the abolitionist movement was largely due to the extreme admiration that a young William Lloyd Garrison had for the ideals expressed in her early work.
		Child asserts that she was deeply moved by this appeal to her conscience and indicated she would be willing to temporarily forgo her art and other interests for the cause of ending slavery.
	www.arps.org /aro/lydia_maria_child.htm (1087 words)

	Lydia Marie Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lydia Marie Child was born on February 11, 1802 and died on October 20, 1880.
		Lydia was born in Medford, Massachusetts, as the sixth and youngest child of Convers and Susannah Francis.
		Lydia still continued to write and edit until the end of her life, although she was devastated by the death of David in 1874.
	www.bsu.edu /web/gstrecker/lydiamariachild.htm (641 words)

	Lydia Maria Child - LoveToKnow 1911
		LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880), American author, was born at Medford, Massachusetts, on the 11th of February 1802.
		She was educated at an academy in her native town and by her brother Con y ers Francis (1795-1863), a Unitarian minister and from 1842 to 1863 Parkman professor in the Harvard Divinity School.
		She was a schoolmistress until 1828, when she married David Lee Child (1794-1874), a brilliant but erratic Boston lawyer and journalist.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lydia_Maria_Child (271 words)

	Lydia Maria Child: A Researched Report
		Although she was a strong supporter of the various nineteenth century reform movements, she considered the abolition of slavery to be the most crucial issue of that era and focused her time and energy in fighting against the evils of slavery.
		Child presented the facts in a clear, logical way to build the case against slavery and then called for the immediate emancipation of the slaves.
		Lydia Maria Child was a gifted scholar, accomplished writer and was one of the most courageous Americans of her time.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/Jacobs/hj-child-terrill.htm (2068 words)

	Lydia Child - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lydia Maria Child (February 11, 1802 – July 7, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist.
		She was the wife of Boston lawyer David Lee Child.
		In 1839, she was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and became editor of the society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1841.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lydia_Child (376 words)

	Lydia Maria Child
		Child sounded an early and a strenuous note, and of its history she is an essential part.
		Lydia Maria Francis was born on the eleventh of February, 1802, in Medford, Massachusetts.
		Child was not eager for immediate success, because it was not yet recognized as a war for the abolition of slavery.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2002/child.html (4260 words)

	American Passages - Unit 7. Slavery and Freedom: Authors
		Lydia Maria Child (born Lydia Francis) was raised outside of Boston in a community she described as made up of "hard-working people who had small opportunity for culture." Her parents ran a bakery while raising six children, leaving them little time for intellectual pursuits.
		In 1833, Child changed the course of her career with the publication of An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, a sweeping indictment of slavery and racism addressed primarily to a female audience.
		The pamphlet was greeted with hostility and damaged Child's mainstream popularity, but it also pushed her to the forefront of the radical abolitionist movement in the North.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit07/authors-2.html (754 words)

	Amazon.com: Lydia Maria Child: The Quest for Racial Justice (Oxford Portraits): Books: Lori Kenschaft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Child overcame both societal and family expectations to become a successful and influential writer, and was the first woman to edit a children's magazine, pen a "domestic manual" for women with limited incomes, and write a regular newspaper column about urban life.
		Child, who was encouraged by her brother to become a reader, grew up to be an author, writing everything from domestic handbooks to novels.
		Lydia Maria Child was a popular young author in 1833 when she published her Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, which described the horrors of slavery.
	www.amazon.com /Lydia-Maria-Child-Justice-Portraits/dp/0195132572 (1086 words)

	Feeding America
		Lydia Maria Child was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of Susannah Rand Francis and David Convers Francis, a successful baker.
		Child's mother died when she was twelve, and in 1815 she was sent to live with her older sister, Mary, in Norridgewock Maine.
		Child scandalized her reading audience because she refuted racist ideology, supporting tolerance for inter-racial marriage and equal rights for fls and because she dared, as a woman, to publicly engage herself in political controversy.
	digital.lib.msu.edu /projects/cookbooks/html/authors/author_child.html (1217 words)

	Amazon.ca: The American Frugal Housewife: Books: Lydia Maria Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Child was one of the Transcendentalists who were huge advocates of personal self-discipline and restraint, but believed to their core the importance of fighting for what they knew to be right.
		Child, like many other Transcendentalists, was a fervent abolitionist and a proponent of women's equality, and worked all her life toward achieving those ends.
		Child was the "Hints from Heloise" queen of her day, and she's got a solution for everything that could possibly beset the early 19th century housewife.
	www.amazon.ca /American-Frugal-Housewife-Maria-Child/dp/048640840X (1040 words)

	Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
		Child characteristically uses a conventional style and appears to be writing from a posture relegated to women novelists and to commonsense male news analysts.
		With Child, this seems easy because--as her style suggests--she appears to be appealing to the common man and the common woman; she is not writing for a "special" audience of "advanced thinkers."
		Perhaps it would be interesting to contrast Child's newspaper rhetoric with that of Garrison--or even to contrast her Appeal with Angelina Grimké's Appeal and with Sarah M.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/child.html (602 words)

	Lydia Maria Child - MSN Encarta
		Born Lydia Maria Francis in Medford, Massachusetts, she published her first novel, Hobomok, in 1824; started the Juvenile Miscellany, the first monthly magazine for children in the United States, in 1826; and conducted a private school in Watertown, Massachusetts, from 1825 to 1828.
		After her marriage to David Child in 1828, she and her husband became ardent abolitionists.
		As a result of their activities, which included using their home as a station in the Underground Railroad, the Childs were ostracized, and Lydia Child's children's magazine failed.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569147/Lydia_Maria_Child.html (189 words)

	H-Net Review: Sarah C. Hand on The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia ...
		Child was left alone with her desolate and difficult father, guilt over her mothers death, her favorite brother in college, her sister Mary married and moved away, and her sister Susannah soon to die.
		Child's years were spent not in domesticity and gentility, but in a constant struggle to repay her husband's debts by taking in boarders, resuming teaching, and constantly moving to live with friends and in boarding houses when she and her husband could not afford a place of their own.
		Child's life ended in poverty, with her bequeathing her few belongings, publishing pieces of her husband's (not her own) writings, seeking spiritual comfort through seances, fighting crippling depression, deafness, and rheumatism, and a final visit to Angelina Grimke, who had grown so senile she could no longer remember Child.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4116910131568 (2352 words)

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