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New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
liances. Indeed, their present extraordinary zeal is but the convulsive spasm of approaching dissolution. In 1825 she again wrote to her sister: Evenings in New England has been out several weeks, and meets with much more unqualified approbation than Hobomok. This book was a charming memorial of Lafayette's visit to this countfamous pamphlet on slavery, in 1833, entitled An Appeal in Behalf of that Class of Americans called Africans, she published nine books: The First Settlers of New England. The Frugal Housewife. The Mother's Book. The Girl's Own Book. The Coronal, and The Ladies' Family Library, in 4 vols., a series of admirable shombition. The Anti-Slavery agitation was coming to the front. Mr. Child had been interested in the question for several years, and had become a member of the New England Society. In 1832 he had addressed a series of able letters on slavery and the slave trade to Edward S. Abdy, a prominent English philanthropist, his outspoken
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
only one instance: the making at one time of sixty yards of cloth into garments, in eight days, with the help of a neighbor and her children. How she found time, between 1850 and 1880, to do her own housework, to visit, to read, to sew, to garden, and to write thirteen books, is beyond an ordinary comprehension. Thirteen books, including, The Progress of Religious Ideas, in 3 vols.; the famous Correspondence with Governor Wise of Virginia, at the time of John Brown's execution at Harper's Ferry; The Freedman's Book; A Romance of the Republic; Looking toward Sunset; and, only two years before her death, Aspirations of the World. Her death occurred quite unexpectedly on the morning of the twentieth of October, 1880. She had been as well as usual, and had been making plans for the winter, when suddenly she complained of a severe pain, and before help could be summoned, passed gently away, in the seventy-ninth year of her age. A few friends from Medford drove up to her funeral
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
under the care of her judicious sister, whose husband, the Hon. Warren Preston, was a lawyer of standing in Norridgewock, the shire town of Somerset county. The Kennebec region, as it was called, was largely settled by members of cultivated Massachusetts families, graduates of Harvard and other universities, and professional men seeking new fields of occupation and interest. The court convened in Norridgewock. This brought judges and lawyers with their families to the town, from various pars courtly in his manners; but with all these desirable qualities was one most undesirable—a genius for experiments, without counting the cost. He was a lawyer in Boston, and a member of the Legislature, but gave up his profession to edit the Massachusetts Journal, soon after their marriage, which took place in Watertown, at eight o'clock Sunday evening, Oct. 19, 1828. Maria's letter to her sister, concerning the preparations for this event, is characteristic of herself and of the simple liv
Wayland (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
In 1849 she left New York and joined her husband in West Newton, but soon after they went to Wayland to live with Mrs. Child's father, the aged David Francis. In this house they spent the rest of either boarding or visiting other friends. Those of us who were privileged to see the home in Wayland will never forget it. The house was an unpretentious country house of one story and attic, set her papers, and published in the preface to her Letters. In 1852 we made a humble home in Wayland, Mass., where we spent twenty-two pleasant years entirely alone, without any domestic, mutually ser, but I must sum up briefly the amount of intellectual work she accomplished during her life in Wayland, passing by the amazing record of sewing done for Kansas, and the freedmen, with only one instagnificent rainbow spanned the eastern sky. Inscription on the stone at Mrs. Child's Grave in Wayland. Lydia Maria Child born Feb. 11, 1802 died Oct. 20, 1880 You call us dead We are not dea
West Newton (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ntil 1849 or 1850, she wrote a series of letters to the Boston Courier, edited by Joseph Buckingham, which were published later in book form, as Letters from New York, First and Second Part. She began also her great work, The Progress of Religious Ideas through Successive Ages. This was published in 1855. About this time James Russell Lowell admirably portrayed Mrs. Child in his Fable for Critics. He evidently admired her greatly. In 1849 she left New York and joined her husband in West Newton, but soon after they went to Wayland to live with Mrs. Child's father, the aged David Francis. In this house they spent the rest of their lives, with an occasional winter in Medford with their friends, the Misses Osgood, or in Boston, either boarding or visiting other friends. Those of us who were privileged to see the home in Wayland will never forget it. The house was an unpretentious country house of one story and attic, set a little back from the public road, and separated from it b
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
n case of need, and stood about the sleigh while Miss Holly rose and made a brief address. Then she and her friends withdrew to Mrs. Child's parlor, and held a lively indignation meeting there. If time and space permitted, I should like to quote many passages from Mrs. Child's later letters, telling of her varied activities and interests, but I must sum up briefly the amount of intellectual work she accomplished during her life in Wayland, passing by the amazing record of sewing done for Kansas, and the freedmen, with only one instance: the making at one time of sixty yards of cloth into garments, in eight days, with the help of a neighbor and her children. How she found time, between 1850 and 1880, to do her own housework, to visit, to read, to sew, to garden, and to write thirteen books, is beyond an ordinary comprehension. Thirteen books, including, The Progress of Religious Ideas, in 3 vols.; the famous Correspondence with Governor Wise of Virginia, at the time of John
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ok. The Coronal, and The Ladies' Family Library, in 4 vols., a series of admirable short biographies. The Mother's Book ran through eight American editions, twelve English, and one German. The Frugal Housewife, which achieved twenty-five editions, embodied the practical housekeeping of the first quarter of the century, and largely regulated that of the second quarter. It is most entertaining as well as useful reading. Mrs. Child was then one of the most popular writers in the United States. Publishers eagerly accepted her manuscripts, and paid her well. The highest literary authority in the country, the North American Review, declared that no woman could outrank her. The Boston Athenaeum went so far, to honor her, as to present her with the freedom of the library. Every door, literary and social, was open to her. But the hour had come when principle was to contend with popularity and ambition. The Anti-Slavery agitation was coming to the front. Mr. Child had been in
Dover (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
red silk pelisse, lined with straw-colored silk, made in the extent of the mode, enough to make anybody stare; one black figured levantine silk, and one swiss muslin. My wedding gown is India muslin, a good deal trimmed with white satin. Clarissa Bigelow is to be bridesmaid, and I have bought 35 lbs. of cake of Nichols. The proper little martin box was situated on Harvard street, but they soon removed to Cottage place, a small street leading out of Washington street, on the neck, beyond Dover. It may be that it is one of several quaint wooden houses still standing, sufficiently attractive even now in their tenement-house decadence, and suggestive of the time when they commanded a view of Dorchester and Brookline over the water. To the years spent in this house, Mrs. Child afterwards referred as the happiest in her life. Not long after their marriage a Spanish pirate ship was captured, and brought to Boston. The men were charged with most cruel crimes and were threatened wit
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
g these few years that she spent in Maine, her father had removed from Medford to Dorchester, and her brother Converse had been settled over the First Church in Watertown. She joined him in his new home, and there found the stimulating society and associations which presently bore fruit in active intellectual work. In 1824, whenbeen at work, of which the success was still unsuspected. It is revealed in the following extracts from her journal: Dec. 2, 1824. Mr. Child dined with us at Watertown. He possesses the rich fund of an intelligent traveller without the slightest tinge of a traveller's vanity. And a month later: Jan. 26, 1825. Saw Mr. Cha lawyer in Boston, and a member of the Legislature, but gave up his profession to edit the Massachusetts Journal, soon after their marriage, which took place in Watertown, at eight o'clock Sunday evening, Oct. 19, 1828. Maria's letter to her sister, concerning the preparations for this event, is characteristic of herself and of
Somerset County (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
was fostered by her elder brother Converse, then a student at Harvard. Through him she had access to books beyond her entire comprehension, but all the more attractive to her imagination. It is easy to understand that David Francis should find it wise, after two or three years of school in Medford, to send this precocious daughter to Maine, to be under the care of her judicious sister, whose husband, the Hon. Warren Preston, was a lawyer of standing in Norridgewock, the shire town of Somerset county. The Kennebec region, as it was called, was largely settled by members of cultivated Massachusetts families, graduates of Harvard and other universities, and professional men seeking new fields of occupation and interest. The court convened in Norridgewock. This brought judges and lawyers with their families to the town, from various parts of the State, and formed a centre of intelligence and refinement, in which Judge Preston's home was prominent. These new associations, combined w
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