Lydia Maria Child

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Standard Name: Child, Lydia Maria
Birth Name: Lydia Maria Francis
Pseudonym: An American
Married Name: Lydia Maria Child
Pseudonym: The Author of Hobomok
Indexed Name: Mrs D. L. Child
Indexed Name: L. Maria Child
Used Form: L. Maria Child
Used Form: Mrs Child
LMC , nineteenth-century American woman of letters, published novels, children's books, domestic-advice books, newspaper articles and columns in the form of letters, as well as biography, controversial works against slavery, a remarkable history of world religions, and an equally ground-breaking anthology and compendium for freed slaves designed to inculcate black pride. She also worked as editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard and other papers, and edited the fictionalised autobiography of Harriet Jacobs .

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Textual Production Sojourner Truth
This report appeared in Lydia Maria Child 's National Anti-Slavery Standard, just before Truth adopted the name under which she became famous.
Textual Production Harriet Jacobs
It originally appeared under the pseudonym Linda Brent (which is given not on the title-page but as signature to the Preface by the Author). The fact that it was edited by Lydia Maria Child

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