Lydia Maria Child Collection

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

Lydia Maria Francis Child was an American author and abolitionist. Her works include the novels Hobomonk (1824) and The Rebels, Or, Boston Before the Revolution (1825), and she founded Juvenile Miscellany (1825), a bi-monthly magazine for children. In 1833 she wrote An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, which drew a lot of support as well as criticism and hostility, but she kept on undaunted, attacking slavery in several other works. When John Brown was wounded and imprisoned at Harper's Ferry, Child asked the governor for permission to come to Virginia and nurse him.

The collection consists of miscellaneous material related to Child: photographs, correspondence, a poem addressed to John Greenleaf Whittier, and manuscript notes on Washington Allston. The photographs are of Child and her family, and her correspondence is chiefly with friends and family members.

Arranged by accession number.

The collection was formed as a result of a Departmental practice of combining into one collection material of various accessions relating to a particular person, family, or subject.

AM 12581, 12624, 80-79, 84-34

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Finding aid written by James Flannery on January 25, 2006. Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager '2015 in 2012.

No materials were removed from the collection during processing beyond routine appraisal practices.

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Publisher

Manuscripts Division

Date

2006

Creator

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

Subject

Women abolitionists -- United States

Women authors -- United States -- 19th century -- Correspondence

Language

English

Form

Correspondence -- 19th century

Manuscripts -- 19th century

photographs -- 19th century