Lydia Maria Child was one of the most influential women of the 1800s. She was a writer, abolitionist, and women's rights activist and was honored in 2001 by the National Women's Hall Of Fame. She was born Lydia Francis on February 11, 1802 in Medford, Massachusetts, to parents Susannah Rand Francis and Convers Francis, and was the youngest of their seven children. However, his time with his parents was cut short when, in 1814, his mother died. Lydia's father chose to send her to live with her sister, Mary Francis Preston, in Norridgewock, Maine. Near the town was a Penobscot settlement, which began its interest in the Indians. Lydia remained with her sister until 1820 and spent her time studying to be a teacher. In 1821 he returned to Massachusetts and lived with his brother Convers, who was a Unitarian minister. There she founded a school for girls and wrote her first four books. Lydia married David Lee Child in 1828, and he later introduced her to social reformers and abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison. Although she became famous through her books, which helped keep her family afloat with David Child, she was much more famous for her reputation as an abolitionist. In 1833 he published An Appeal on behalf of that class of Americans called Africans in which he called for the emancipation of slaves and racial equality. People like Wendell Phillips (abolitionist), William Ellery Channing (preacher), and Charles Sumner (politician and senator from Massachusetts) said it helped them develop their own anti-slavery views; however, with the publication of An Appeal, her popularity plummeted and she was forced to stop publishing her bimonthly periodical, Juvenile Miscellany. Eight years after having pu...... middle of paper ...... a principle and starving to death an idea”. She is buried in the North Cemetery in Wayland, Massachusetts. Works Cited Clifford, Deborah P.. "Lydia Maria Child." Foundation for Poetry. NP Network. April 22, 2014. "Lydia Maria Child." National Women's Hall of Fame. Np, nd Web. 22 April 2014. .Goodwin, Joan. "Lydia Maria Bambina." Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. Np, 28 2 2001. Web. 22 April 2014. .Teets-Parzynski , Catherine. "Lydia Maria Francis Child." American National Biography Online. NP Network. 22 April 2014. .Child, Lydia Maria. Letters of Lydia Maria Child. Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1883. 135. Print.