Child, L Ydia Maria (6 results)

Zweite Folge der "Briefe aus New York" der amerikanischen Frauenrechtlerin, Kämpferin für die Rechte der amerikanischen Ureinwohner sowie für die Abschaffung der Sklaverei eintretenden Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). Wie schon bei der ersten Briefsammlung handelt es sich um im "National Anti-Slavery Standard", dessen Herausgeberin sie war, als wöchentliche Kolumne veröffentlichte "Briefe". Im Gegensatz zur ersten, 1841 erschienen Sammlung tritt hier der abolitionistische Impetus etwas zurück und "reflects the shift in Child's interests from social reform to mysticism and the arts" (Carolyn L. Karcher, "The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child" (1994), S. 316). Im "Zwölften Brief" legt sie dar, dass sie von Swedenborgs "Entsprechungslehre" schon früh beeinflusst wurde: "You remind me that I often allude to correspondences between things natural and spiritual. This was first revealed to me, in early life, in the writings of Swedenborg". Vor diesem Hintergrund schildert sie ihren Lesern Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse aus New York. Sie berichtet viel über Musik ("music is the voice of God"), wobei sie besonders die Kunst des norwegischen Violinisten Ole Bul beeindruckte, dessen Konzert sie gleich mehrfach besuchte. Ausführlich schildert sie einen Vortrag über Mnemotechnik von Francis Fauvel Gouraud oder beschäftigt sich mit den Anhängern William Millers ("Millerites"), die vergeblich auf einen zweiten Advent, die Rückkehr Christi zwischen März 1843 und März 1844 gehofft hatten. Ihre sozialreformerische Einstellung tritt in den "Briefen" aber ebenso zu Tage. So lässt eine 65jährige schwarze Waschfrau, die als Sklavin mehrfach verkauft worden war, ihren Lebenslauf schildern oder setzt sich für eine Gefängnisreform ein. - Teils etwas stockfleckig, Vorsatz mit Namenseintrag, sonst gut erhalten.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 287 plus 17 publisher's ads. Original blind-stamped purple cloth (faded to tan) with gilt spine labels. Lightly foxed. Cover little worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. BAL 3152. Writings about anything and everything in New York that prompted comment. Child was best known as an abolitionist and feminist writer, and was the author of The Frugal Housewife.

First Edition. First State (per BAL). Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, peach endpapers; xii,[13]-287,[1],[16]pp. Light wear at extremities with brief exposure, else Very Good to Near Fine. This copy in variant cloth binding not noted in the BAL, in brown "V" cloth with peach endpapers. Second collection of New York stories first published in the Standard and the Boston Courier, revised here with the editorial aid of her friend and fellow-abolitionist Ellis Gray Loring. Much of the overtly abolitionist material was excised for a broader readership, though at least three letters are devoted to the movement, as well as one to prison reform. Overall, however, the second series "reflects the shift in Child's interests from social reform to mysticism and the arts" (Carolyn L. Karcher, "The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child" (1994), p. 316). BAL 3152; WRIGHT I 529.

12mo. pp. ix, [1 leaf], 276. contemporary blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spine ends chipped, rear joint frayed, some foxing). First Edition of the American abolitionist and women s rights activist s popular account of her residence in New York, 1841-43; a second series was published in 1844. Sabin 12721.

Second edition of the first volume, first edition, first state of the second, 12mo, pp. 288; 287, [17]; green cloth, gilt spine; corners bumped, light foxing,some fading on the spines but generally good and sound. An account of the author's time in New York. From the Poetry Foundation: "Lydia Maria Child ranks among the most influential of nineteenth-century American women writers. She was renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice and a champion of excluded groups in American society-especially Indians, slaves, and women. A writer who early heeded the call for an American literature with American themes, she was a pioneer in several literary genres. She wrote one of the earliest American historical novels, the first comprehensive history of American slavery, and the first comparative history of women. In addition, she edited the first American children's magazine, compiled an early primer for the freed slaves, and published the first book designed for the elderly. Child possessed an uncanny ability for knowing exactly what the American reading public wanted and when they wanted it. She was also gifted at rendering radical ideas, such as the abolition of slavery, palatable for American readers." BAL 3147 and BAL 3152, state A.

Lydia Maria Child (1802 Ð 1880) was a womenÕs rights activist, novelist, educator, and dedicated abolitionist. She authored numerous anti-slavery publications, edited Harriet Ann JacobsÕ classic memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and offered protection and shelter to Black people fleeing slavery. Child was also a member of the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society and an editor of The National Anti-Slavery Standard, the societyÕs periodical. Twelvemo. xvi, 493 pp. With frontisportrait and one plate (both of Hopper) with tissue guards. PublisherÕs brown cloth titled in gilt on spine. Minor edgewear. Yellow coated endpapers. Some foxing to plates and title-page, but otherwise very clean throughout. Two early pencil ownership signatures to front flyleaf. A near fine copy, unusually fresh and tight, of ChildÕs biography of her friend, in a custom cloth open-end slipcase. First edition. Isaac Tatem HopperÊ(1771 Ð 1852) was a leading Pennsylvania abolitionist who protected free Black people and fugitives from slavery. Between 1841 and 1845, he served as the treasurer and book agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Hopper was also a prison reformer, an overseer of the Negro School for Children in Philadelphia, and a teacher in a free school for Black adults. BAL 3174. Dumond. Bibliography of Antislavery in America, p. 38.