WRITER

Lydia Maria Child

1802 - 1880

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Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lydia Maria Child has received more than 378,249 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lydia Maria Child is the 6,105th most popular writer (down from 5,660th in 2019), the 10,237th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,183rd in 2019) and the 764th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Letters from New York
Social life and customs, Description and travel, Correspondence
1843
A Romance of the Republic
American Civil War, interracial marriage
1867
Frugal housewife
Home economics, Cookery, American Cookery
1829
Isaac T. Hopper
1853
The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories
2003
Philothea
Fiction, Transcendentalism (New England), Social life and customs
1836

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lydia Maria Child ranks 6,105 out of 7,302. Before her are George Grove, Antjie Krog, María Dueñas, Julio Llamazares, Brad Falchuk, and Eeva-Liisa Manner. After her are Dorothy Allison, Zakhar Prilepin, Ion Negoițescu, Marie Pujmanová, Ian McDonald, and George B. Seitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Lydia Maria Child ranks 62. Before her are Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Édouard Ménétries, Andrei Stackenschneider, Richard Thomas Lowe, and Miguel de San Román. After her are Gideon Welles, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chand Kaur, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick. Among people deceased in 1880, Lydia Maria Child ranks 67. Before her are Thomas Bell, José Ignacio de Márquez, Manuel Murillo Toro, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Manolache Costache Epureanu, and José Ruperto Monagas. After her are Nell Arthur, James Seddon, and Achille Guenée.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lydia Maria Child ranks 10,237 out of 20,380. Before her are Brad Falchuk (1971), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Isabelle Daniels (1937), Daniel DiNardo (1949), Ruth Roland (1892), and Alfred Lane (1891). After her are Martha Mansfield (1899), Robert J. Bentley (1943), Carole Bayer Sager (1947), Robert Zubrin (1952), Susan Dey (1952), and John Munro Longyear (1850).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lydia Maria Child ranks 764. Before her are John Greenleaf Whittier (1807), Lee Strobel (1952), Robin Morgan (1941), Katie Couric (1957), Peter Orlovsky (1933), and Brad Falchuk (1971). After her are Dorothy Allison (1949), George B. Seitz (1888), Robert B. Sherman (1925), Julia Alvarez (1950), Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806), and Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818).

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