Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria [Francis]

Ms., 1802-1880. A once famous writer whose literary career began with the publication of Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times, in 1821, and closed with Aspirations of the World, in 1878. In 1833 she sacrificed much of her popularity by her Appeal for that Cla of Americans Called Africans, and was ever after prominent as an abolitionist, a isting her husband in editing the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Among her other works are included The Rebels, a novel in which occur a speech by James Otis and a sermon by White field, long supposed to be real and not imaginary; The First Settlers of New England; The Mother’s Book; The Girl’s Book; Philothea, a Greek romance; The Power of Kindne ; Isaac T. Hopper, a True Life, a popular biography of a noted Quaker abolitionist; The Progre of Religious Ideas; Autumnal Leaves; Looking Toward Sunset; The Freedman’s Book; Miria, a Romance of the Republic. See Letters of; Lowell’s Fable for Critics. Hou. Rob.