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Menotomy (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ttempt even a sketch of her career without letting sympathy and love retain a large share in the service. Lydia Maria Francis was born at Medford, Mass., February 11th, 1802. Her ancestor, Richard Francis, came from England in 1636, and settled in Cambridge, where his tombstone may still be seen in the burial-ground. Her paternal grandfather, a weaver by trade, was in the Concord fight, and is said to have killed five of the enemy. Her father, Convers Francis, was a baker, first in West Cambridge, then in Medford, where he first introduced what are still called Medford crackers. He was a man of strong character and great industry. Though without much cultivation, he had uncommon love of reading; and his anti-slavery convictions were peculiarly zealous, and must have influenced his children's later career. He married Susannah Rand, of whom it is only recorded that she had a simple, loving heart, and a spirit busy in doing good. They had six children, of whom Lydia Maria was
Quaker (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
and in the work, remaining there for eight years in all. She was very successfull as an editor, her management being brave and efficient, while her cultivated taste made the Standard attractive to many who were not attracted by the plainer fare of the Liberator. The good judgment shown in her poetical and literary selections was always acknowledged with especial gratitude by those who read the Standard at that time. During all this period she was a member of the family of the well-known Quaker philanthropist, Isaac T. Hopper, whose biographer she afterwards became. This must have been the most important and satisfactory time in Mrs. Child's whole life. She was placed where her sympathetic nature found abundant outlet, and plenty of co-operation. Dwelling in a home where disinterestedness and noble labor were as daily breath, she had great opportunities. There was no mere almsgiving there, no mere secretaryship of benevolent societies; but sin and sorrow must be brought home to
Holland (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
d, in 1827, the Juvenile Miscellany, that delightful pioneer among children's magazines in America; and it was continued for eight years. In October, 1828, she was married to David Lee Child, a lawyer of Boston. In those days it seemed to be held necessary for American women to work their passage into literature by first compiling a cookery-book. They must be perfect in that preliminary requisite before they could proceed to advanced standing. It was not quite as in Marvell's satire on Holland, Invent a shovel and be a magistrate, but, Give us our dinner and then, it you please, what is called the intellectual feast. Any career you choose, let it only begin from the kitchen. As Charlotte Hawes has since written, First this steak and then that stake. So Mrs. Child published in 1829 her Frugal housewife, a book which proved so popular that in 1836 it had reached its twentieth edition, and in 1855 its thirty-third. The Frugal housewife now lies before me, after thirty years of
Wayland (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
855. She had begun it long before, in New York, with the aid of the Mercantile Library and the Commercial Library, then the best in the city. It was finished in Wayland, with the aid of her brother's store of books, and with his and Theodore Parker's counsel as to her course of reading. It seems, from the preface, that more thanew York, but almost the world of society, and took up her abode (after a short residence at West Newton), in the house bequeathed to her by her father, at Wayland, Massachusetts. In that quiet village she and her husband have peacefully dwelt, avoiding even friendship's intrusions. Into the privacy of that home I have no right t the last Anti-slavery Festival at Boston, and not only shows the mode of action adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Child, but their latest opinions as to public affairs:-- Wayland, Jan. 1st, 1868. Dear friend Phillips : We enclose $50 as our subscription to the Anti-slavery Society. If our means equalled our wishes, we would send a sum
West Newton (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
y where so much of her life had been already laid. I have now enumerated all of Mrs. Child's writings, so far as I can ascertain them,--some having been attributed to her which she did not write,--and have mentioned such of her public acts as are inseparable from her literary career. Beyond this it is not now right to go. It is now nearly twenty years since she left not only the busy world of New York, but almost the world of society, and took up her abode (after a short residence at West Newton), in the house bequeathed to her by her father, at Wayland, Massachusetts. In that quiet village she and her husband have peacefully dwelt, avoiding even friendship's intrusions. Into the privacy of that home I have no right to enter. Times of peace have no historians, and the later career of Mrs. Child has had few of what the world calls events. Her domestic labors, her studies, her flowers, and her few guests keep her ever busy. She has no children of her own,--though, as some one
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
mould the Lydia Maria Child of maturer years than all the faithful labors of good Dr. Osgood, to whom she and her brother used to repeat the Westminster Assembly's Catechism once a month. Apart from her brother's companionship the young girl had, as usual, a very unequal share of educational opportunities; attending only the public schools, with one year at the private seminary of Miss Swan, in Medford. Her mother died in 1814, after which the family removed for a time to the State o.f Maine. In 1819, Convers Francis was ordained over the First Parish in Watertown, and there occurred in his study, in 1824, an incident which was to determine the whole life of his sister. Dr. J. G. Palfrey had written in the North American review for April, 1821, a review of the now forgotten poem of Yamoyden, in which he ably pointed out the use that might be made of early American history for the purposes of fictitious writing. Miss Francis read this article, at her brother's house, one sum
Medford (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
her career without letting sympathy and love retain a large share in the service. Lydia Maria Francis was born at Medford, Mass., February 11th, 1802. Her ancestor, Richard Francis, came from England in 1636, and settled in Cambridge, where his nd is said to have killed five of the enemy. Her father, Convers Francis, was a baker, first in West Cambridge, then in Medford, where he first introduced what are still called Medford crackers. He was a man of strong character and great industry.Medford crackers. He was a man of strong character and great industry. Though without much cultivation, he had uncommon love of reading; and his anti-slavery convictions were peculiarly zealous, and must have influenced his children's later career. He married Susannah Rand, of whom it is only recorded that she had a of educational opportunities; attending only the public schools, with one year at the private seminary of Miss Swan, in Medford. Her mother died in 1814, after which the family removed for a time to the State o.f Maine. In 1819, Convers Francis
Broadway (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
want, or his story to hear and believe; The pole, science tells us, the magnet controls, But she is a magnet to emigrant Poles, And folks with a mission that nobody knows Throng thickly about her, as bees round a rose; She can fill up the carets in such, make their scope Converge to some focus of rational hope, And with sympathies fresh as the morning, their gall Can transmute into honey,--but this is not all; Not only for these she has solace, oh, say, Vice's desperate nursling adrift in Broadway, Who clingest with all that is left of thee human To the last slender spar from the wreck of the woman, Hast thou not found one shore where those tired drooping feet Could reach firm mother earth, one full heart on whose beat The soothed head in silence reposing could hear The chimes of far childhood throb thick on the ear? Ah, there's many a beam from the fountain of day That to reach us unclouded, must pass on its way, Through the soul of a woman, and hers is wide ope To the influence of
West Indies (search for this): chapter 3
ame year she printed two small tracts, The Patriarchal institution, and The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Law; and then one of her most elaborate compilations, entitled The Right Way the Safe Way, proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies and elsewhere. This shows the same systematic and thorough habit of mind with its predecessors; and this business-like way of dealing with facts is hard to reconcile with the dreamy and almost uncontrolled idealism which she elsewhere shoians to do their duty. This we consider the appropriate and all-important work of the old Anti-slavery Society. The British Anti-slavery Society deserted their post too soon. If they had been as watchful to protect the freed people of the West Indies as they were zealous to emancipate them, that horrid catastrophe in Jamaica might have been avoided. The state of things in those islands warns us how dangerous it is to trust those who have been slaveholders, and those who habitually sympat
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
paration for the theological school. Long after, Mr. Parker used still to head certain pages of his journal, Questions to ask Dr. Francis. The modest study at Watertown was a favorite Headquarters of what were called the transcendentalists of those days. Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Ripley, and the rest came often thither, in the ord. Her mother died in 1814, after which the family removed for a time to the State o.f Maine. In 1819, Convers Francis was ordained over the First Parish in Watertown, and there occurred in his study, in 1824, an incident which was to determine the whole life of his sister. Dr. J. G. Palfrey had written in the North Americaonal qualities soon cemented some friendships, which lasted her life long, except where her later anti-slavery action interfered. She opened a private school in Watertown, which lasted from 1825 to 1828. She established, in 1827, the Juvenile Miscellany, that delightful pioneer among children's magazines in America; and it was co
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