Lydia Maria Child

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1.  Lewis, Jone Johnson. "Lydia Maria Child." 2005. About.com: Women's History Online. 3 June 2007. <  http://womenshistory.about.com/od/childlydiamaria/a/lydiamariachild.htm >

Lydia Maria Child is known as one of the most influential writers of our past. She was a simple New England girl from Medford, Massachusetts. Her writing was exceptional and not only did she dabble her work as a novelist she was a editor, journalist and scholar. The work that she produced was noted as outstanding and ideal by critics. Child had greater interest than the ordinary average writer of her times. She got her start at writing ordinary topics of love, life and the american dream but she had other ideas. Her interests was in Native Americans and Africans because of her strong belief in the idea of freedom. She wrote other publications but the most controversial was "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans", 1833. This was her against the ideal American belief that spoke against Christianity and spoke about the disgusting truth of slavery. As a writer that was not the best thing to do and the public's acceptance affected her career. Publishers no longer accepted her work and she lost her job as editorial post with "The Juvenile Miscellany." The setback in her personal career never bothered Child, she took it all in with dignity and continued with a new start as a editor at a  publication, "National Anti-Slavery Standard." Her work showed up in various publication but the most notable piece of work was the book for former slaves, "Freedman's Book." Child was a notable writer and famously radical abolitionist that made many contribution to shed the light on the atrocious treatments of African slaves and Native Americans. At the end of her career she had written well over 50 books, contributed to various publications and written a great number of articles.

The website covers a brief review about women's history. It has information that covers an array of knowledge about the critique of slavery movement. I found it very helpful and I learned alot about the role that women have played during that time. This site focuses on specific women that have contributed to society and in defining the criteria it focuses on various authors. This website was very helpful because it was well informative about the slavery movement. The main focus was on specific women authors but was still very helpful at informing me of the period that I was focusing on. The theme was very obvious in this site because of the struggles the author had faced. This website is credible due to the fact that the website is dedicated to women's history and I happen to run into it after reviewing Oprah's book club website. It is credible it is apart of the New York Times Company and it has reliable sources and information.