Sketching Her Life in Pamphlets: a Bibliography of Ida B. Wells

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Photograph of Ida B. Wells, circa 1893. Courtesy of Mary Garrity.

Photograph of Ida B. Wells, circa 1893 by Sallie E. Garrity. National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC. Public domain. Through her use of pamphlets to spread information, Ida B. Wells paved the way for her successors to fight for justice. Ida B. Wells was a prominent anti-lynching activist, editor, journalist and researcher who worked to highlight … Continue reading Sketching Her Life in Pamphlets: a Bibliography of Ida B. Wells

Writing in the Sphere of Domesticity: Lydia Maria Child’s Works for Women and Children

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Frontispiece from Letters of Lydia Maria Child, by Lydia Maria Child, collected and arranged by Harriet Winslow Sewall. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. Via HathiTrust / public domain. Biography Lydia Maria Child was a prolific American writer who had a profound influence in the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Massachusetts in 1802, Child … Continue reading Writing in the Sphere of Domesticity: Lydia Maria Child’s Works for Women and Children