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Lydia Maria Child a radical American life

"Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was for a time one of America's most beloved authors, known for household manuals and children's poems, including the immortal "Over the River and Through the Wood." But in 1833, having converted to the abolitionist cause, Child published An Appeal in Favor of that Cla...

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Main Author: Moland, Lydia L. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
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Child, Lydia Maria, > 1802-1880.
Women abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women authors, American > Biography.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • A personal prologue
  • By an American
  • A love not ashamed of economy
  • Let us not flatter ourselves
  • Of mobs and marriages
  • How does it feel to be a question?
  • On resistance
  • The workshop of reform
  • On quitting and not giving up
  • First duties first, and how to do your second duties too
  • Keep firing
  • On delicate ears and indelicate truths
  • A warning or an example
  • No time for ovations
  • Truly living now
  • Epilogue.

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