| Top | Primary Works

Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times, 1824; The Rebels or Boston Before the Revolution, 1825; Juvenile Miscellany (the first periodical for children in the US), 1826; The Frugal Housewife, 1828; The Mother's Book, 1831; An Appeal in Favor of that Class Of Americans Called Africans, 1833; History of the Condition of Women, In Various Ages and Nations, 1835; "Slavery's Pleasant Homes" (short story), 1843; Letters from New York (while editor of The National Anti-Slavery Standard, a Garrisonian newspaper), 1843, 1845; Fact and Fiction (stories), 1846; The Freedmen's Book (collection of stories, sketches, and poems by Black writers), 1865; The Progress of religious Ideas Through Successive Ages, 1855; Appeal for the Indians, 1868; A Romance of The Republic, 1867.

An appeal in favor of Americans called Africans. NY: Arno Press, 1968. E449 C532

The freedmen's book. NY: Arno Press, 1968. E185.86 C46

Isaac T. Hopper: a true life. Boston,: John P. Jewett & co, 1853. E449 .H798

Over the river and through the wood, pictures by Brinton Turkle. NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1974. Juv / 784.6 CHI

Whittier, John G. ed. Letters of Lydia Maria Child. NY: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883. PS1293 .Z8

Incidents in the life of a slave girl: written by herself, by Harriet A. Jacobs; edited by L. Maria Child; edited and with an introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987. E444 .J17 A3

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Baer, Helene G. The Heart is Like Heaven: The Life of Lydia Maria Child. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1964.

Coleman, Linda S. ed. Women's life-writing: finding voice/ building community. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1997. PR756 .W65 W66

Dean, Margaret, and Paula Kopacz. "Packaging Women's Narratives in Early America: Presenting Mary White Rowlandson and Harriet Jacobs." Kentucky Philological Review 12 (Mar 1997): 35-41.

Fleischner, Jennifer. Mastering slavery: memory, family, and identity in women's slave narratives. NY: NY UP, 1996. E444 .F577

- - -. "Mothers and Sisters: The Family Romance of Antislavery Women Writers." Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood. Eds. Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner. NY: NY UP, 1994. 125-41.

Foster, Edward H. ed. Hobomok. NY: Garrett, 1970.

Gussman, Deborah. "Inalienable Rights: Fictions of Political Identity in Hobomok and The Scarlet Letter." College Literature 22.2 (Jun 1995): 58-80.

Hoeller, Hildegard. "Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)." Nineteenth Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise Knight and Emmanuel Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 42-49.

Holland, Patricia G. "Legacy Profile: Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)." Legacy 5.2 (Fall 1988): 45-53.

Karcher, Carolyn L. "Lydia Maria Child's A Romance of the Republic: An Abolitionist Vision of America's Racial Destiny." Slavery and the Literary Imagination. Eds. Deborah McDowell and Arnold Rampersad. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. 81-103.

- - -. The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Durham: Duke UP, 1994.

- - -. "Lydia Maria Child and the Juvenile Miscellany: The Creation of an American Children's Literature.' Periodical Literature in Nineteenth Century America. Eds. Kenneth Price and Susan Smith. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995. 90-114.

- - -. "Partriarchal Society and Matriarchal Family in Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle' and Child's 'Hilda Silfverling'." Legacy 2.2 (Fall 1985): 31-44.

- - -. ed. A Lydia Maria Child Reader. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1997.

| Top | Kellow, Margaret. "Duties Are Ours: A Life of Lydia Maria Child, 1802-1880 (Vols. I and II)." DAI 54.11 (May 1994): DA9413162. Degree granting institution: Yale U, 1992.

Krumrey, Diane. "On the Frontier of Natural Language with the Eloquent Indians: Hobomok and Hope Leslie." The Image of the Frontier in Literature, the Media, and Society. Eds. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: U of Southern Colorado, 1997.

Malone, Anne R. "Sugar Ladles and Strainers: Political Self Fashioning in the Epistolary Journalism of Lydia Maria Child." Women's life-writing: finding voice/ building community. Ed. Linda Coleman. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1997. 239-56. PR756 .W65 W66

Marshall, Ian. "Heteroglossia in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok." Legacy 10.1 (1993): 1-16.

Meltzer, Milton. Tongue of Flame: The Life of Lydia Maria Child. NY: Crowell, 1965.

- - -, and Patricia Holland, eds. Lydia Maria Child: Selected Letters, 1817-1880. Amherst: UP of Massachusetts, 1982.

Mills, Bruce. "Lydia Maria Child and the Endings to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." American Literature 64.2 (Jun 1992): 255-72.

- - -. "Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child's Ultraisms for the 1840s." American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Julie Brown. NY: Garland, 1995. 3-11.

- - -. "Cultural Reformations: The Literary and Social Worlds of Lydia Maria Child." DAI 51.12 (Jun 1991): DA9112457. Degree granting institution: U of Iowa.

Nelson, Dana D. ed. A Romance of the Republic. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1997.

| Top | Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Boston: Twayne, 1980. PS1293.Z5 O8

Patterson, Mark R. "Surrogacy and Slavery: The Problematics of Consent in Baby M, Romance of Republic, and Pudd'nhead Wilson." American Literary History 8.3 (Fall 1996): 448-70.

Reid, Bethany A. "Choosing Illegitimacy: American Writers and the Trope of the Female Bastard." DAI 57.2 (Aug 1996): DA9616659. Degree granting institution: U of Washington, 1995.

Swennes, Robert H. "Lydia Maria Child: Holographs of 'The Hero's Heart' and 'Brackett's Bust of John Brown'." American Literature 40 (1969): 539-42.

Tarr, Rodger L. "Emerson's Transcendentalism in L.M. Child's Letter to Carlyle." ESQ 58 (1970): 112-15.

Tingley, Stephanie A. "'Thumping against the Glittering Wall of Limitations': Lydia Maria Child's 'Letters from NY'." In Her Own Voice: Nineteenth Century American Women Essayists. Ed. Sherry L. Linkon. NY, NY: Garland, 1997. 41-59.

Vaux, M. Molly. "Writing from the Antechamber: Prefaces and Authorship in the Works of Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James." DAI 59.1 (Jul 1998): DA9820585. Degree granting institution: City U of NY, 1998.

Yellin, Jean F. Women & Sisters: The Anti Slavery Feminists in American Culture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.

- - -. "Written by Herself: Harriett Jacobs' Slave Narrative." American Literature 53.3 (Nov 1981): 479-86.

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