Child

Child (born FRANCIS), LYDIA MARIA, American author, born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1802, published her first novel in 1821, and in 1828 married David Lee Child (1794-1874), a journalist, with whom she edited the Anti-slavery Standard in New York in 1843-44. She was a conspicuous champion of the slaves, for whom she published an Appeal in 1833; the principal of her numerous other works are novels, the best of them relating to early New England history, and an ambitious but inaccurate work on the history of religion (1855). She died 20th October 1880.