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Lydia Maria Child

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American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

United StatesWritersLived 1802 to 1880 · aged 78
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Lydia Maria Child was an American abolitionist, feminist, 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.

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Child in 1870, reading a bookChild in 1870, reading a bookIllustration from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called AfricansIllustration from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called AfricansLydia Maria Child, from a 1910 publicationLydia Maria Child, from a 1910 publicationTitle page of Hobomok, 1824Title page of Hobomok, 1824

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2001National Women's Hall of Fame

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Lydia Maria Child was an American abolitionist, feminist, 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. At times she shocked her audience as she tried to take on issues of both male dominance and white supremacy in some of her stories.

Country
United States
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Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1802 to 1880 · aged 78
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