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Lydia M. Graves

Best known as the credited co-author and assistant authoress of a major 19th-century freethought work, this little-documented writer is closely linked with bold religious criticism and comparative study of sacred texts. Her surviving public record is slim, which makes the work itself the clearest window into her legacy.

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The Bible of Bibles; Or, Twenty-Seven "Divine" Revelations

The Bible of Bibles; Or, Twenty-Seven "Divine" Revelations

by Kersey Graves, Lydia M. Graves

About the author

Lydia M. Graves is a little-documented 19th-century writer best known for her connection to The Bible of Bibles; Or, Twenty-Seven "Divine" Revelations (1879). Library and archive records for that book list her as a joint author with Kersey Graves, and one record notes on the title-page verso that she was the book's "assistant authoress."

She is associated with the freethought tradition of the late 1800s. The book she is linked to takes a wide-ranging, critical look at religious texts and Biblical claims, placing her work within a broader culture of religious debate, skepticism, and comparative study.

Beyond those publication credits, reliable biographical details about her life are hard to confirm from readily available sources. Because of that, her published work remains the most dependable way to understand her place in print history.