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Lydia Maria Child

1802 - 1880

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Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s. At times she shocked her audience as she tried to take on issues of both male dominance and white supremacy in some of her stories. Despite these challenges, Child may be most remembered for her poem "Over the River and Through the Wood." Her grandparents' house, which she wrote about visiting, was restored by Tufts University in 1976 and stands near the Mystic River on South Street, in Medford, Massachusetts. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lydia Maria Child is the 5,528th most popular writer (up from 6,105th in 2019), the 8,756th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,241st in 2019) and the 649th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Lydia Maria Child ranks 5,528 out of 7,302Before her are David Weber, Aya Kitō, Zofka Kveder, William Tenn, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, and Val McDermid. After her are Xaviera Hollander, Shankha Ghosh, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Leonard Howell, Evgeny Sveshnikov, and Wang Meng.

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Among people born in 1802, Lydia Maria Child ranks 58Before her are Sylvain Van de Weyer, Charles-Mathias Simons, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Nicholas Wiseman, Édouard Ménétries, and Dorothea Dix. After her are Manuel María Lombardini, David Octavius Hill, Andrei Stackenschneider, Miguel de San Román, Gideon Welles, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Among people deceased in 1880, Lydia Maria Child ranks 63Before her are Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, William Hallowes Miller, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, and Daniel Bashiel Warner. After her are Manolache Costache Epureanu, José Ignacio de Márquez, Manuel Murillo Toro, José Ruperto Monagas, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and Achille Guenée.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lydia Maria Child ranks 8,758 out of 20,380Before her are Charles Melton (1991), Richard Henry Lee (1732), Louise Lasser (1939), Missy Elliott (1971), Jim McGovern (1959), and Peter Del Monte (1943). After her are Elliott H. Lieb (1932), Frances Schroth (1893), Hal David (1921), Paul McCarthy (1945), Jeanne Bates (1918), and Bill Farmer (1952).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lydia Maria Child ranks 649Before her are Sara Paretsky (1947), Lew Rockwell (1944), Ann Bannon (1932), Kristin Hannah (1960), Peter S. Beagle (1939), and David Weber (1952). After her are Madeline Miller (1978), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950), Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923), Candy Barr (1935), Scott Turow (1949), and Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836).