Description: Essays on women's rights, the preaching of African American minister Julia Pell, the Crosby Street Synagogue, animal magnetism, the engineering miracle of Croton Aqueduct, and countless other people, topics, and events capture the breathless and sometimes unsettling transformation of New York.
Brief description: LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880) was an author, abolitionist, suffragist, and pioneer in children's education.
Review Quotes:
In Letters from New-York Child develops a voice that is personal, conversational, and frank. Her concern for social justice is clearly in evidence. . . . The Letters are among Child's very best work.
--Judith Fetterly "coeditor of American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology"