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Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; 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.
- Abolitionist, feminism
- Lydia Francis, February 11, 1802, Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
- North Cemetery, Wayland, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Convers Francis (brother)
Lydia Maria Child was an American author of antislavery works that had great influence in her time. Born into an abolitionist family, Lydia Maria Francis was primarily influenced in her education by her brother, a Unitarian clergyman and later a professor at the Harvard Divinity School.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lydia Maria Child, (Feb. 11, 1802–Oct. 20, 1880) was a prolific writer who advocated women's rights, Indigenous peoples' rights, and North American 19th-century Black activism. Her best-known piece today is the homey "Over the River and Through the Wood," but her influential anti-enslavement writing helped sway many Americans toward the North ...
Lydia Maria Child ranks among the most influential of 19th-century American women writers. She was renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice and a champion of excluded groups in American society—especially Native Americans, enslaved peoples, and women.
Her legacy includes works dedicated to the fight to end slavery, to secure the rights of free blacks after the Civil War, in protest against the mistreatment of Native Americans, and in support of the movement for equality for women. Lydia Maria Child died in Wayland, Massachusetts on October 20, 1880.
(1802-1880) Lydia Maria Francis Child, one of the 19th century’s most popular American writers, was a prominent and influential advocate for the abolition of slavery, and for Native American and Women’s Rights. Early Years. Lydia Maria Child was born Lydia Francis in Medford, Massachusetts on February 11, 1802, the youngest of 7 children.
Born Lydia Maria Francis on February 11, 1802, in Medford, Massachusetts; died in Wayland, Massachusetts, on October 20, 1880; daughter of David Convers Francis (a baker) and Susannah (Rand) Francis; sister of Convers Francis (1795–1863, a Unitarian minister); educated in Norridgewock, Maine; married David Lee Child (1794–1874, a Boston lawyer a...
