This rich collection is the first to represent the full range of Child's contributions as a literary innovator, social reformer, and progressive thinker over a

This definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage.

Lydia Maria Child presents the life of the dynamic nineteenth-century writer who, through her pen and at great personal cost to her literary career, spoke out f

Lydia Maria Child grew up in the 1800s reading countless books. She defied the idea that girls weren't supposed to fill their minds with ideas and stories. They