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Browsing named entities in Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall). You can also browse the collection for 1831 AD or search for 1831 AD in all documents.

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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Introduction. (search)
Few female writers, if any, have done more or better things for our literature in the lighter or graver departments. Comparatively young, she had placed herself in the front rank of American authorship. Her books and her magazine had a large circulation, and were affording her a comfortable income, at a time when the rewards of authorship were uncertain and at the best scanty. In 1828 she married David Lee Child, Esq., a young and able lawyer, and took up her residence in Boston. In 1831-32 both became deeply interested in the subject of slavery, through the writings and personal influence of William Lloyd Garrison. Her husband, a member of the Massachusetts legislature and editor of the Massachusetts Journal, had, at an earlier date, denounced the project of the dismemberment of Mexico for the purpose of strengthening and extending American slavery. He was one of the earliest members of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, and his outspoken hostility to the peculiar insti
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), List of Mrs. Child's works, with the date of their first publication as far as ascertained. (search)
ts, and Pokanokets. As related by a mother to her children. Boston, 1829. The (American) Frugal Housewife. Boston, 1829. 12vo. The Mother's Book. Boston, 1831. 12vo. The Girl's Own Book. Boston, 1831. 12vo. The Coronal; a Collection of Miscellaneous Pieces, Written at Various Times. Boston, 1831. 18vo. The lad1831. 12vo. The Coronal; a Collection of Miscellaneous Pieces, Written at Various Times. Boston, 1831. 18vo. The ladies' family Library. Vol. I. Biographies of Lady Russell and Madame Guion. Boston, 1882. 12vo. Vol. II. Biographies of Madame de Staiel and Madame Roland. Boston, 1832. 12vo. Vol. III. Biographies of Good Wives. Boston, 1833. 12vo. contents. Lady Ackland. Queen Anna. Arria, Wife of Poetus. Lady Biron. Mrs. Bl1831. 18vo. The ladies' family Library. Vol. I. Biographies of Lady Russell and Madame Guion. Boston, 1882. 12vo. Vol. II. Biographies of Madame de Staiel and Madame Roland. Boston, 1832. 12vo. Vol. III. Biographies of Good Wives. Boston, 1833. 12vo. contents. Lady Ackland. Queen Anna. Arria, Wife of Poetus. Lady Biron. Mrs. Blackwell. Calphurnia. Chelonis. Lady Collinwood. Countess of Dorset. Queen Eleanor Eponina. Lady Fanshawe. Mrs. Fletcher. Mrs. Grotius. Mrs. Howard. Mrs. Huter. Countess of Huntingdon. Mr. Hutchinson. Lady Arabella Johnson. Mrs. Judson. Mrs. Klopstock. Mrs. Lavater. Mrs. Lavalette. Mrs. Luther. Queen Mary. Count