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Lydia Maria Francis Child (1802–1880)

Autor/a de Over the River and Through the Wood

70+ obres 2,608 Membres 41 Ressenyes 1 preferits

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Lydia Maria Child was born in Medford, Massachusetts on February 11, 1802. She was educated at home, at a local dame school, and at a nearby women's seminary. Her first novel, Hobomok, was published in 1824. Her other novels include The Rebels or Boston before the Revolution, The First Settlers, mostra'n més Philothea, and Romance of the Republic. She wrote advice books including The Frugal Housewife, The Mother's Book, The Little Girl's Own Book, and The Freedmen's Book. She was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and Indian rights advocate. She wrote books about these causes including An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, Anti-Slavery Catechism, and An Appeal for the Indians. She was also the author of Over the River and Through the Wood (A Boy's Thanksgiving Day). She died on October 20, 1880. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880), American activist, abolitionist and author; name frequently given on works as: Mrs. Child

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Obres de Lydia Maria Francis Child

Over the River and Through the Wood (1974) 1,222 exemplars
The American Frugal Housewife (1832) 544 exemplars
The Girl's Own Book (1833) 90 exemplars
Mother's Book (1988) 86 exemplars
Family Nurse (1837) 30 exemplars
A Romance of the Republic (1997) 28 exemplars
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life (1881) 27 exemplars
Letters of Lydia Maria Child (1883) 20 exemplars
Letters from New-York (1977) 20 exemplars
Philothea: A Romance (1836) 11 exemplars
The Freedmen's Book (1980) 10 exemplars
Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times (1824) 9 exemplars
Good Wives 2 exemplars
Over the River 1 exemplars
The Girl's Own Book 1 exemplars
The family nurse 1 exemplars
Anti-slavery catechism (1836) 1 exemplars
The Freedmen's Book (2012) 1 exemplars
Good wives 1 exemplars
Rosa and Flora 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) — Editor, algunes edicions4,273 exemplars
Slave Narratives (2000) — Col·laborador — 321 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions255 exemplars
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) — Col·laborador — 122 exemplars
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Col·laborador — 118 exemplars
Storytelling and Other Poems (1949) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
Swords & Steam Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2016) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
Time Travel Short Stories: Anthology of New & Classic Tales (2017) — Col·laborador — 58 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1802-11-02
Data de defunció
1880-07-06
Lloc d'enterrament
North Cemetery, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Lloc de defunció
Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
Llocs de residència
Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
New Rochelle, New York, USA
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Educació
dame school
Professions
teacher
novelist
editor
publisher
abolitionist
Relacions
Francis, Convers (brother)
Child, David Lee (husband)
Fuller, Margaret (friend)
Sewall, Harriet Winslow (friend)
Organitzacions
American Anti-Slavery Society
Underground Railroad
Biografia breu
Lydia Maria Child, née Francis, was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the youngest of six children. She received her early education at a local dame school. Her mother died when she was 12 years old, and she spent her teenage years living with a married sister in rural Maine, where she studied to be a teacher. She read an article in the North American Review about novels on early New England history, and immediately wrote the first chapter of a novel called Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times, which she completed in six weeks and published in 1824. It became an overnight sensation. Two years later, she founded the Juvenile Miscellany, the first American children's magazine. In 1828, she married David Lee Child, a Boston lawyer, journalist, and aspiring politician. He went into debt and she supported them with her prolific writings, which included more novels, short stories, pamphlets, and journalism. She became a leading anti-slavery activist in the 1830s, and was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, whose journal, the National Anti-Slavery Standard, she edited and made into an influential publication. She quit the AASS in 1843 after a major disagreement, and although she worked for the equality of women and Native Americans, she never again joined an organized society. Today she is considered a major link between the worlds of American literature and social reform.
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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880), American activist, abolitionist and author; name frequently given on works as: Mrs. Child

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Over the River and Through the Wood, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott.

Lydia Maria Child's classic New England Thanksgiving poem, which first appeared in 1844, is given a modern treatment by illustrator Nadine Bernard Westcott in this fun seasonal picture-book. As the rhyming text rollicks along, following a family as they journey to their grandparents' house for a Thanksgiving feast, the artwork alternates between depicting that family on the road and depicting Grandmother and Grandfather preparing for them. The setting is modern, so the family travels in a car, driving from city to country, but the textual references to horses and sleighs are not neglected, as they pass such equipages on their journey. Eventually they arrive, and the poem/song concludes with a big hurrah for the pumpkin pie. The musical notation for the song is included at the rear...

Over the River and Through the Wood: A Song for Thanksgiving, published in 1992, is the fourth picture-book presentation of this beloved seasonal poem/song that I have read, following upon the versions illustrated by Matt Tavares, Christopher Manson and Brinton Turkle. I found it enjoyable and engaging, although not the equal, aesthetically speaking, of those other three versions. I appreciated the fact that Westcott has "updated" the Thanksgiving journey described in the poem—her family are modern city dwellers, and drive a modern car—while still retaining the traditional elements in the song, such as horse-drawn sleighs. I also appreciated that the artwork alternated between the grandparents preparing for visitors, and the family journeying toward them. The text was rather abbreviated—in its full form this poem has twelve stanzas, but the version here uses only three—although it still makes for an engaging read-aloud. This wouldn't be the first picture-book presentation of this poem that I would recommend to readers—that would be either the Tavares or the Turkle versions, both of which contain the full twelve verses, and both of which feature artwork I prefer—but it is still a fun picture-book for the season.
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AbigailAdams26 | Hi ha 23 ressenyes més | Nov 22, 2021 |
Boundary pushing, for its time. I think I like her non-fiction stuff better.

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This is intriguing...
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |
One of the first abolitionist books written-- and by a woman, at that. This book destroyed her blossoming literary career and she had to work hard to get it back, but, to my knowledge, never backed down from her statements here. My one desire is for an edition that provides a thorough bibliography in the back...
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |

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