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Lydia Maria Child

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Lydia Marie Child (1802-1880) was an American abolitionist, novelist, and journalist. She was born in Medford, Massachuset to Susannah Rand Francis and Convers Francis.

She became editor of the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1841.

Her works

  • Hobomok (1824)
  • The Rebels (1825).
  • Juvenile Miscellany (1826)
  • The Frugal Housewife (1829),

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