Lydia Maria Child

American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist and Unitarian.

1802 CE to 1880 CE

Lydia Maria Child (February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) is an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist and Unitarian.

Her journals, fiction and domestic manuals reach wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s.

She at times shocks her audience, as she tries to take on issues of both male dominance and white supremacy in some of her stories.

Despite these challenges, Child is later most remembered for her poem, Over the River and Through the Woods, about Thanksgiving.

(Her grandfather's house, restored by Tufts University in 1976, still stands near the Mystic River on South Street in Medford, Massachusetts.)

The World War II Liberty Ship Lydia M Child is launched on January 31st, 1943.

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