Item #55809 Letters from New York. [With:] Letters from New York. Second series. Maria Child, ydia.
Letters from New York. [With:] Letters from New York. Second series.
Letters from New York. [With:] Letters from New York. Second series.
Letters from New York. [With:] Letters from New York. Second series.
Letters from New York. [With:] Letters from New York. Second series.

Letters from New York. [With:] Letters from New York. Second series.

New York: C. S. Francis and Co., 1844-45. Second edition of the first volume, first edition, first state of the second, 12mo, pp. 288; 287, [17]; green cloth, gilt spine; corners bumped, light foxing,some fading on the spines but generally good and sound. An account of the author's time in New York. From the Poetry Foundation: "Lydia Maria Child ranks among the most influential of nineteenth-century American women writers. She was renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice and a champion of excluded groups in American society-especially Indians, slaves, and women. A writer who early heeded the call for an American literature with American themes, she was a pioneer in several literary genres. She wrote one of the earliest American historical novels, the first comprehensive history of American slavery, and the first comparative history of women. In addition, she edited the first American children's magazine, compiled an early primer for the freed slaves, and published the first book designed for the elderly. Child possessed an uncanny ability for knowing exactly what the American reading public wanted and when they wanted it. She was also gifted at rendering radical ideas, such as the abolition of slavery, palatable for American readers." BAL 3147 and BAL 3152, state A. Item #55809

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