Lydia Maria Child - Publications

Publications

• Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times (1824). Google books
• The Rebels, or Boston before the Revolution (1825). 1850 ed., Google books
• Juvenile Miscellany, a children's periodical (editor, 1826–1834)
• The First Settlers of New England (1828)
• The Indian Wife (1828)
• The American Frugal Housewife, a book of kitchen, economy and directions (1829; 33rd edition 1855)
• The Mother's Book (1831), an early American instructional book on child rearing, republished in England and Germany (1831)
  • The Mother's Book by Lydia Maria Child. Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Babcock, 1831
• Coronal, a collection of verses (1931)
• The Ladies' Family Library, a series of biographies (5 vols., 1832–1835)
• The Girl's Own Book (1833)
  • The Girl's Own Book; new ed. by Mrs. R. Vallentine. London: Wiliam Tegg, 1863
• An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)
• The Oasis (1834)
• Philothea, a romance of Greece in the days of Pericles (1836)
• The Family Nurse (1837)
• The Liberty Bell, included stories such as "The Quadroons" (1842)
• "Slavery's Pleasant Homes: A Faithful Sketch", a short story (1843)
• Letters from New York, written to the Boston Courier (2 vols., 1843–1845)
• A Boy's Thanksgiving Day, a Thanksgiving favorite (1844)
• Flowers for Children (3 vols., 1844–1846)
• Fact and Fiction (1846)
• Rose Marian and the Flower Fairies (1850)
• The Power of Kindness (Philadelphia, 1851)
• The Progress of Religious Ideas through Successive Ages, an ambitious work, showing great diligence, but containing much that is inaccurate (3 vols., New York, 1855)
• Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life (1853)
• Autumnal Leaves (1857)
• Looking Toward Sunset (1864)
• The Freedmen's Book (1865)
• Miria, a romance of the Republic (1867)
• An appeal for the Indians (1868)
• Aspirations of the World (1878)
• A volume of her letters, with an introduction by John G. Whittier and an appendix by Wendell Phillips, was published after her death (Boston, 1882)