Lydia Maria Child
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Lydia Maria Child was an American abolitionist, feminist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals,
An 1882 engraving of Child
Child c. 1865, reading a book
Title page of Hobomok, 1824
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. J
Lydia Maria Child
…but although Wise had no objection, Brown did not accept her offer. In 1860, Child was invited to write a preface to Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She met Jacobs and not only agreed to write the preface but also became the editor of the book. Child published her first novel, the historical romance…
Frontispiece of the first edition
Harriet Jacobs, 1894
An 1862 pirated British edition, with an image on the cover of Harriet Jacobs hiding in the attic as a slave catcher confronts her grandmother.