Books by Lydia Maria Child

Antoine Breguet is an old watchmaker who wants to retire. One of his two apprentices is going to take his place, but which one? Who is better qualified and who will impress the watchmaker’s granddaughter more? The two men are ready to compete. Whoever comes up with the best, most exquisite and intricate creation will inherit Breguet's shop. However friendship and love stand in the way. What will happen with the two friends and their future as watchmakers? Find out in Lydia Child’s "The Rival Mechanicians".B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Lydia Maria Child was an American writer who lived in the period 1802-1880. Her works often depicted antislavery related issues. She was women’s rights activist and Native American rights activist and she took on those topics in some of her stories as well. This brought her a wide audience, but there were also many people who could not understand and criticised her social position and works. Some of her best known stories are "An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans", a work related to the history of slavery, "The Frugal Housewife", a book depicting women’s rights and "An Appeal for the Indians", a story about the Native Americans and their lives as oppressed members of the society.

The publication of this work in 1824 was met with an immediate scandal. Mary, the novel's protagonist and a Puritan settler in the New World, falls in love and marries a Native American. The author confronted directly issues of religious oppression, gender stereotypes, and racial prejudice directly in this book of equality and social expectations.

Lydia Maria Child is better known as the abolitionist who supported Harriet Jacob''s masterpiece, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, but very few people know that Lydia Maria Child was a prolific author who had dedicated her life for the abolition of slavery in her actions and writings. This edition brings to you her 7 hard hitting anti-slavery stories in one volume: Slavery''s Pleasant Homes The Quadroons Charity Bowery The Emancipated Slaveholders Anecdote of Elias Hicks The Black Saxons Jan and Zaida Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was an American abolitionist, women''s rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s. At times she shocked her audience as she tried to take on issues of both male dominance and white supremacy through her stories.

"An exceptionally handsome treat." ?Booklist Lydia Maria Child's beloved poem turned classic song embodies the magic of bundling up and riding a horse-drawn sleigh to visit Grandmother for Thanksgiving.The joys of Thanksgiving are indelibly captured in this glorious paring of text and art. Set in the nineteenth century, this story features Christopher Manson's indelible wood carvings, which capture the wonders of winter-such as sledding and ice-skating-and the Thanksgiving feast.