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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...
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    Over the River and Through the Wood (category Works by Lydia Maria Child)
    "Over the River and Through the Woods", is a Thanksgiving poem by Lydia Maria Child, originally published in 1844 in Flowers for Children, Volume 2. Although...
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    biography of John Brown. Thayer and Eldridge demanded a preface by Lydia Maria Child. Jacobs confessed to Amy Post, that after suffering another rejection...
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    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (category Works by Lydia Maria Child)
    Eldridge agreed to publish her manuscript and initiated her contact with Lydia Maria Child, who became the editor of the book, which was finally published in...
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  • with his wife, Lydia Maria Child. Child was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts, on July 8, 1794, and graduated from Harvard in 1817. Child worked for some...
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  • the River…Life of Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist for Freedom is a 2007 documentary film and book about the life of Lydia Maria Child. The film was produced...
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  • performing ceremonial Native American dances. A contemporary writer, Lydia Maria Child, wrote about Do-Hum-Me at length, and described Do-Hum-Me as "a very...
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    Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for...
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    2019. Jackson, Constance Lillie (2008). Over the River--: Life of Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist for Freedom, 1802-1880 : a Companion Book to the Epic...
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  • singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and activist Lydia de Crescenzo, Italian fashion designer working as "Lydia de Roma" Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880), American abolitionist...
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    The Quadroons (category Books by Lydia Maria Child)
    "The Quadroons" is a short story written by American writer Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) and published in The Liberty Bell in 1842. The influential short...
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    Hobomok (category Books by Lydia Maria Child)
    the nineteenth-century American author and human rights campaigner Lydia Maria Child. Her first novel, published in 1824 under the pseudonym "An American"...
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  • story by Lydia Maria Child (introduced the literary character of the tragic mulatto) Slavery's Pleasant Homes, 1843 short story by Lydia Maria Child Uncle...
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    contemporary popular literature. She was probably influenced by Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York, another gift from Newton (after reading it...
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    E. Willard 2001 Dorothy H. Andersen Lucille Ball Rosalynn Carter Lydia Maria Child Bessie Coleman Dorothy Day Marian de Forest Althea Gibson Beatrice...
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    named in the American poem "Over the River and through the Wood" by Lydia Maria Child. (Although many people sing "to grandmother's house we go", the author's...
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    Class of Americans Called Africans is an 1833 book by American writer Lydia Maria Child, which advocated the immediate emancipation of the slaves without...
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    Mary Cassatt Willa Cather Carrie Chapman Catt Judy Chicago Julia Child Lydia Maria Child Shirley Chisholm Hillary Clinton Jacqueline Cochran Mildred Cohn...
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    Lucretia Mott (redirect from Lydia Mott)
    Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Josephine S. Griffing...
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    Hannah Webster Foster (1797), and the short story The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child (1842). Harriet Jacobs's autobiography Incidents in the Life of a...
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  • (James Lord Pierpont) – 2:38 "Over the River and Through the Woods" (Lydia Maria Child) – 1:59 Side two "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven...
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    Pillars are fallen at thy feet... (Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage, Lydia Maria Child) I am come in sorrow. (Lord Jim, Conrad) I am come in my Father's...
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    Georgia. He copyrighted the song while there. Another resident, Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880), made a poem out of the trip across town to her grandparents'...
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    The authors were part of the American Anti-Slavery Society, such as Lydia Maria Child, an abolitionist and women's rights advocate who served on the American...
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    States in 1972. They had several children including broadcast journalist Maria Shriver. Eunice Mary Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on July...
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  • Matthews The Oasis, an 1834 anti-slavery gift book by abolitionist Lydia Maria Child The Oasis, a 1999 novel by Pauline Gedge The Oasis (novel) (1949)...
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    1889) was an American poet, and editor of the collected letters of Lydia Maria Child. Winslow was born in Portland, Maine, June 20, 1819 into a Quaker...
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    and Lydia Maria Child were particularly influential to Higginson's abolitionist enthusiasm during the early 1840s. Higginson claimed that Child's book...
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    "Born on the Fourth of July" Shining Time Station Tito Swing 1990 Lydia Maria Child "'Tis A Gift" Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift 1992 Alan Menken &...
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    litigation used up much of the rest. In 1880, abolitionist author Lydia Maria Child mythologized Appleseed in a poem: In cities, some said the old man...
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