Mother's Book - Hardcover

Child, Lydia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557091242 ISBN 13: 9781557091246

Publisher: Applewood Books, 1989

Synopsis

Child's 1831 book on childhood and motherhood, with its "plain, practical good-sense, written with earnestness and simplicity of style," offers chapters on Early Cultivation of Intellect, Amusements and Employments, Politeness, Management during the Teens, and Views of Matrimony. This facsimile edition was published in cooperation with Old Sturbridge Village.

About this title

About the Author:

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist. Her 1833 book An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans was the first anti-slavery work printed in America in book form, while her American Frugal Housewife, first published in 1828, was a wildly popular nineteenth-century manual for homemakers. Other works from Child, who is best remembered for her Thanksgiving poem "Over the River and Through the Woods," include The Mother's Book, The Girl's Own Book, and The Family Nurse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Applewood Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1557091242
• ISBN 13: 9781557091246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184