Lydia Child

Lydia Maria Child (February 11, 1802 – July 7, 1880 in Wayland, Massachusetts) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist. She is perhaps most remembered for her poem "Over the River and Through the Woods." (Her Grandfather's House, restored by Tufts University in 1976, still stands near the Mystic River on South Street in Medford, Massachusetts.)

Child's works

• "Hobomok: A tale of Early Times, by an American" (1824) was the first historical novel published in the United States
• "The Rebels" (1825).
• "Juvenile Miscellany" (1826)
• "The Frugal Housewife" (1829)
• "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans" (1833)
• "Letters from New York" (1843)
• "Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life" (1853)
• "The Freedmen's Book" (1865)
• "An appeal for the Indians" (1868)