Lydia Maria Child: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Biographies of Lydia Maria Child include Deborah Pickman Clifford, Crusader for Freedom: A Life of Lydia Maria Child (1992); Carolyn L. Karcher, The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (1994); and Lydia Moland, Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life (2022).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Feb 07, 2026
Anniversary information added. Oct 16, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Feb 22, 2024
Article revised. Nov 16, 2022
Invalidated site: Biography from American National Biography. Feb 28, 2018
Add new Web site: National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum - Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Jun 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Jun 05, 2015
Add new Web site: National Women's History Museum - Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Jun 05, 2015
Added new Web site: Worcester Women's History Project - Lydia Maria Child. Sep 05, 2007
Added new Web site: National Women's Hall of Fame - Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Sep 05, 2007
Added new Web site: Literary Encyclopedia - Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Sep 05, 2007
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Sep 05, 2007
Added new Web site: The University of Michigan - Lydia Maria Francis Child. Sep 05, 2007
Added new Web site: University of Groningen - Revolution to Reconstruction - Biography of Lydia Child. May 07, 2007
Article revised. Sep 06, 2002
Article revised. Feb 16, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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