A Lydia Maria Child Reader

by Tiffany Clarke Harrison

Book Overview

From the 1820s to the 1870s, Lydia Maria Child was as familiar to the American public as her Thanksgiving song, "Over the river and through the wood, / To grandfather's house we go," remains today. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. She crusaded against slavery and racism, combated religious bigotry, championed women's rights, publicized the plight of the urban poor,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319497
• ISBN13: 9780822319498
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"