author
Lydia Maria Child
1802–1880
A fearless 19th-century writer who used fiction, journalism, and household books to reach a wide audience, she is remembered both for her antislavery work and for the poem later known as "Over the River and Through the Wood."
13 Audiobooks
The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act An Appeal To The Legislators Of Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 9
by Lydia Maria Child
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
by Lydia Maria Child
The history of the condition of women, in various ages and nations (vol. 2 of 2) : Comprising the women of Europe, America, and South Sea Islands
by Lydia Maria Child
The American Frugal Housewife
by Lydia Maria Child
The history of the condition of women in various ages and nations : Vol. 1 (of 2), Comprising the women of Asia and Africa
by Lydia Maria Child
The Magician's Show Box, and Other Stories
by Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Lydia Maria Child
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
by Lydia Maria Child
Anti-slavery catechism
by Lydia Maria Child
Autumnal leaves: tales and sketches in prose and rhyme
by Lydia Maria Child
The mother's book
by Lydia Maria Child
Philothea: A Grecian Romance
by Lydia Maria Child
A Romance of the Republic
by Lydia Maria Child
The Freedmen's Book
by Lydia Maria Child
About the author
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, Lydia Maria Child became one of the most versatile American writers of her era. She wrote novels, advice books, children's literature, essays, and journalism, building a large readership in the 1820s and 1830s.
Her career changed sharply when she published An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans in 1833, an outspoken antislavery work that cost her much of her popular audience but established her as a major abolitionist voice. She also edited the National Anti-Slavery Standard and wrote in support of women's rights and Native American rights.
Today she is often remembered both as a reformer and as a writer whose work moved across genres with unusual ease. Alongside her political writing, she also left a lasting place in American culture through the Thanksgiving poem beginning "Over the River and Through the Wood."