Medford’s Grace Episcopal Church, 160 High St., will present a “Look at Lydia Maria Child” on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m., with a talk by Jane Sciacca from Wayland Historical Society, currently ...

Some people are born activists. Others have activism thrust upon them—a process that may take decades or emerge from a sudden, transformative eruption of conscience. Lydia Maria Child belongs in the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Lydia Moland provided an introduction to her lecture on the life of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, best known for her poem “Over the River ...

Lydia Maria Child may be best remembered today for that beloved poem about going over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house, “The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day.” But ...

In 1829, American women preparing their family’s Thanksgiving feast could turn for guidance to one of the country’s first self-help books: “The Frugal Housewife” by Lydia Maria Child, a beloved ...

Biography was once the elegant matriarch of nonfiction. Smelling faintly of lavender, she clutched her pearls when the story got too personal, or the author intruded on the narrative to address the ...

The New-England Boys’ Song About Thanksgiving Day Over the river and through the woods, To Grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow.

THE portrait which confronts the reader who opens the volume of Mrs. Child’s Letters, 1 is of a vigorous, resolute old lady, with a large head, strong lines about the mouth, a kindly eye, and an ...