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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Lydia Maria Child
Born: February 11, 1802
Died: October 20, 1880 (aged 78)
Bio: Lydia Maria Francis Child, born Lydia Maria Francis, was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism.
Known for:
- The frugal housewife (1829)
- Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times (1824)
- Letters from New-York (1842)
- The Freedmen's Book (1865)
- The mother's book (1831)
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