Lydia Maria Child, Lydia Moland
Lydia Maria Child, Lydia Moland
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Lydia Maria Child
A Radical American Life

Author: Lydia Moland

Narrator: Lydia Moland

Unabridged: 17 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/06/2024

Synopsis

A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the Wood,” Child had become famous at an early age for spunky self-help books and charming children’s stories. But in 1833, Child shocked her readers by publishing a scathing book-length argument against slavery in the United States—a book so radical in its commitment to abolition that friends abandoned her, patrons ostracized her, and her book sales plummeted. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the abolitionist cause, becoming one of the foremost authors and activists of her generation.Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life tells the story of what brought Child to this moment and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child’s example, philosopher Lydia Moland asks questions as pressing and personal in our time as they were in Child’s: What does it mean to change your life when the moral future of your country is at stake? When confronted by sanctioned evil and systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? Child’s lifetime of bravery, conviction, humility, and determination provides a wealth of spirited guidance for political engagement today.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lee

This is a terrific read about a famous figure from the Abolitionist movement in pre-Civil War America. Child was an extraordinary woman and role-model. The author does a great job of taking the reader into a deep dive of the politics and events of the days surrounding this movement. She also doesn’t......more

Goodreads review by Maielle

It is a joy to have the fascinating, too-long forgotten story of L. Maria Child recounted in a manner so nuanced and searching, so heartening and humble, and so full of life. Professor Moland's philosophical approach infuses her work with weight and interest, and she has discerningly selected—from t......more

Goodreads review by Li

One of the many important things I learned from Lydia Moland’s fantastic biography was the way Lydia Maria Child (LMC) employed the wide variety and and array of her many gifts to fight not only against slavery, but also against race- and gender-based oppression during the first 2/3 of her 19th cent......more

Goodreads review by Andy

We grew up to the song "Over the River and Through the Woods." It was based on a poem written in the 1800s by Lydia Maria Child. Like most, I did not know about this amazing, strong woman who was far ahead of her time. This excellent biography corrects that. Child was born to a family of modest means......more

Goodreads review by Ellen

When Lydia Maria Child was born in Massachusetts in 1802, the United States was a fledgling country led by Thomas Jefferson. The ties that held the union together were tenuous, and political posturing, religious zealots, misinformation and propaganda abounded. (sound familiar?) Education of girls was......more

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