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

"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 "O

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