Lydia Maria Pfeffer, "The Magic of Women" (2021), oil on canvas, 84 x 78 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Ochi Projects) Lydia Maria Pfeffer, "Belle of the Fertility Spring Ball" (2021), oil ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Lydia Moland provided an introduction to her lecture on the life of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, best known for her poem “Over the River ...
Some people are born activists. Others have activism thrust upon them—a process that may take decades or emerge from a sudden, transformative eruption of conscience. Lydia Maria Child belongs in the ...
The New-England Boys’ Song About Thanksgiving Day Over the river and through the woods, To Grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow.
In 1829, American women preparing their family’s Thanksgiving feast could turn for guidance to one of the country’s first self-help books: “The Frugal Housewife” by Lydia Maria Child, a beloved ...
"Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life" tells the story of what brought Child to this moment and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child’s example, philosopher Lydia Moland ...
Biography was once the elegant matriarch of nonfiction. Smelling faintly of lavender, she clutched her pearls when the story got too personal, or the author intruded on the narrative to address the ...
THE portrait which confronts the reader who opens the volume of Mrs. Child’s Letters, 1 is of a vigorous, resolute old lady, with a large head, strong lines about the mouth, a kindly eye, and an ...
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