Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Anderson, Paula J.
URN	etd-07142005-012014
Title	Lydia Maria Child: Author, Activist, Abolitionist
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title John Fenstermaker Committee Chair Anne Rowe Committee Member Bruce Bickley Committee Member
Keywords	Feminist First Woman of the Republic Crusader Nineteenth Century Author
Date of Defense	2005-06-28
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract During the nineteenth century, Lydia Maria Child was widely recognized for her contributions to American non-fiction, literature and journalism during a career that spanned six decades. She was an activist, abolitionist, and champion of equal rights for all. Today, Child’s accomplishments are known to few but the most ardent scholars of the period, yet her enlightened approaches to issues of race, gender and cultural equality are as vital in our time as they were when she penned them. Much of what Child wrote nearly two centuries ago can be directly applied to the social challenges of the twenty-first century. For this reason, she is the object of study for this thesis, which this author fervently hopes will help to reacquaint the American reading public with messages from another time that must also be heeded in our own.
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