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Child, Lydia Maria Francis

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Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)

US writer, social critic, and feminist, author of the popular women's guides The Frugal Housewife 1829 and The Mother's Book 1831. With her husband, David Child, she worked for the abolition of slavery, advocating educational support for black Americans. The Childs edited the weekly National Anti-Slavery Standard 1840-44.

Child, born in Medford, Massachusetts, received little formal education but read widely and published several historical novels about life in colonial New England.
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