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Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, 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.
Lydia Maria Child (born February 11, 1802, Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 20, 1880, Wayland, Massachusetts) was an American author of antislavery works that had great influence in her time.
Lydia Maria Child ranks among the most influential of 19th-century American women writers. She was renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice and a champion of excluded groups in American society—especially Native Americans, enslaved peoples, and women.
Nov 17, 2020 · Lydia Maria Child, (Feb. 11, 1802–Oct. 20, 1880) was a prolific writer who advocated women's rights, Indigenous peoples' rights, and North American 19th-century Black activism.
Significance: Writer, editor, abolitionist, suffragist. Place of Birth: Medford, Massachusetts. Date of Birth: February 11, 1802. Place of Death: Wayland, Massachusetts. Date of Death: October 20, 1880. Through the skill of her pen, Lydia Maria Child advocated for the rights of others as a writer and editor.
Lydia Maria Francis Child, one of the 19th century’s most popular American writers, was a prominent and influential advocate for the abolition of slavery, and for Native American and Women’s Rights. Early Years.
In August 1833, at the height of her success in Boston literary circles, and after years studying the subject of slavery, Lydia Maria Child published An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans.
