Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life

by Lydia Moland

Book Overview

Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America's most courageous abolitionists.

By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem "Over the River and through the Wood," Child had become famous at an early age for spunky self-help books...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226833348
• ISBN13: 9780226833347
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"