Who Was Lydia Maria Child?
Briefly

Illustration by Liam Eisenberg.Biography was once the elegant matriarch of nonfiction.Smelling faintly of lavender, she clutched her pearls when the story got too personal, or the author intruded on the narrative to address the reader, or the political machinery showed through the corseted layers of her heaving bodice.
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