Lydia Maria Child’s best known publication, The Frugal Housewife, was first printed in 1829 an
Lydia Maria Child’s best known publication, The Frugal Housewife, was first printed in 1829 and went through 33 editions, providing domestic guidance to a generation of American women. But her lifetime of activism also helped advance causes like abolition and suffrage. She edited the “National Anti-Slavery Standard”, wrote about women’s history and pleaded for the rights of Native Americans. Learn more about Child and her literary legacy: https://s.si.edu/2KgqgHO Read her Letters from New York (1844) in our Digital Library: https://s.si.edu/3nDY5AT (: @nmaahc : https://s.si.edu/2KHJ5TW) -- source link