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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Lydia Maria Child. (search)
he 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 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