Lydia Maria Child: The Quest for Racial Justice

by Lori Kenschaft

Book Overview

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 for those silenced in society -- slaves, Native Americans, women, and the poor. At the dawn of the 1830s, Lydia Maria Child was a
celebrated author, known for her popular domestic handbook, The Frugal Housewife, and Hobomok, a novel of American Indian life. In 1833, with the publication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195132572
• ISBN13: 9780195132571
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12