WorkLydia Maria Child

History of Women

Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880)

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Documented 1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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History of Women; by L.M. Child . . .

“History of Women; by L.M. Child . . .”
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“As long as there are copies of this popular book to be procured in so neat a form readers will hasten to seek for it.”
“This volume is not an essay upon woman’s rights, or a philosophical investigation of what is or ought to be the relation of the sexes.”

Fuller, Margaret. "History of Women; by L.M. Child . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 November 1845.