Lydia Maria Child

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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 .
  • BirthName: Lydia Maria Francis
  • Married: Child
  • Pseudonyms: An American; The Author of Hobomok
  • Indexed: Mrs D. L. Child; L. Maria Child
Head-and-shoulders engraving of Lydia Maria Child in her later age. She is wearing a buttoned dress with lacy collar and a cap. Her straight hair is parted in the middle and coiled over her ears.

Milestones

11 February 1802

Lydia Maria Francis (later LMC ) was born in Medford, Massachusetts, USA (a shipbuilding village), the youngest of six children.
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
15, 17

May 1824

Hobomok, a historical novel about race relations and the first book by Lydia Maria Francis (later LMC ), was published as By an American.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
40
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
54

August 1833

LMC 's An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans appeared, aiming to be the first scholarly American overview of the history of slavery and the condition of the Negro.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
99, 102n31
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
125

By September 1867

LMC 's A Romance of the Republic, published this year at Boston, was issued at London under the title Rosa and Flora. A Romance. The Athenæum reviewed the original and the piracy together.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

20 October 1880

LMC died at her home at Wayland from a sudden heart attack; she had been feeling remarkably well that same morning.
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
16
Whittier, John Greenleaf, and Lydia Maria Child. “Introduction”. Letters of Lydia Maria Child, Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969, p. v - xxv.
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Biography

Birth and Family

11 February 1802

Lydia Maria Francis (later LMC ) was born in Medford, Massachusetts, USA (a shipbuilding village), the youngest of six children.
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
15, 17

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