Lydia Marie Child Essay -- Research Papers

Lydia Marie nestling Lydia Marie Child was born on February 11, 1802 and died on October 20, 1880. During her life she wrote in legion(predicate) forms and on various topics, but Lydia was more than just a writer. She wrote curt stories, biographies, science fiction, serialized fiction, childrens literature, historical novels and antislavery literature (Karcher 6). She was also a diary keeper and a feminist, and wrote about the American Revolution and Native Americans. She helped Harriot Jacobson escape slavery, encourage reform and was an abolitionist. But, before she could help others, Lydia had to fight for her own right to go along and succeed. Lydia was born in Medford, Massachusetts, as the sixth and youngest child of Convers and Susannah Francis. Susannah died when Lydia was twelve, and she was sent to exsert with a married sister until the age of nineteen. Although Mr. Francis encouraged the intellectual emanation of his sons, he discouraged his daughter, Lydia, fro m her fondness for books (Myerson 5). Lydia continued to read and learn, without her fathers encouragement or help, an...