Lydia's Child

Lydia's Child
Author: Kirychenko Valentine
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1618971212

This is the amazing true story of the struggle and survival of the author's family, caught up in the upheavals of World War I, the Russian revolution, Communist rule, and World War II.Valentine Kirychenko's mother, Lydia, and Lydia's family were sent to Siberia at the start of WWI. While returning home after the war ended, eight-year-old Lydia and her two sisters become separated from their mother, Louiza. The girls grow up in the chaos of the Stalin regime, facing oppression, starvation, with death always threatening. During WWII, Lydia and her husband, Ivan, struggle to protect the family during the German occupation. Lydia finally finds her mother and they became reunited. But then the family is taken to Germany to work as slave labor in the munitions factories, enduring unrelenting bombing raids until the factory is destroyed. They manage to find jobs in a village, finally safe until the war's end. After four years in a refugee camp post-war, Ivan moves his loved ones to Australia, beginning a new life far from war-ravaged Europe. Here they grow and prosper in a safe and happy environment. Even when ordinary people are buffeted by forces beyond their control, they can do extraordinary things.

Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child
Author: Lori Kenschaft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2002-10-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0198030428

Lydia Maria Child presents the life of the dynamic nineteenth-century writer who, through her pen and at great personal cost to her literary career, spoke out for those silenced in society -- slaves, Native Americans, women, and the poor. At the dawn of the 1830s, Lydia Maria Child was a celebrated author, known for her popular domestic handbook, The Frugal Housewife, and Hobomok, a novel of American Indian life. In 1833, with the publication of her controversial Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, Child's life changed dramatically from literary figure to antislavery activist. Her Appeal helped ignite the abolitionist movement, and several antislavery leaders -- including Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner -- credited it with converting them to the cause. An inspirational look at an extraordinary woman, Lydia Maria Child is the story of how one person fought for the basic human right of freedom -- for all. Oxford Portraits are informative and insightful biographies of people whose lives shaped their times and continue to influence ours. Based on the most recent scholarship, they draw heavily on primary sources, including writings by and about their subjects. Each book is illustrated with a wealth of photographs, documents, memorabilia, framing the personality and achievements of its subject against the backdrop of history.

A Lydia Maria Child Reader

A Lydia Maria Child Reader
Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822319498

This rich collection is the first to represent the full range of Child's contributions as a literary innovator, social reformer, and progressive thinker over a career spanning six decades.

Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child
Author: Lydia Moland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2022-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 022671585X

Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the Wood,” Child had become famous at an early age for spunky self-help books and charming children’s stories. But in 1833, Child shocked her readers by publishing a scathing book-length argument against slavery in the United States—a book so radical in its commitment to abolition that friends abandoned her, patrons ostracized her, and her book sales plummeted. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the abolitionist cause, becoming one of the foremost authors and activists of her generation. Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life tells the story of what brought Child to this moment and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child’s example, philosopher Lydia Moland asks questions as pressing and personal in our time as they were in Child’s: What does it mean to change your life when the moral future of your country is at stake? When confronted by sanctioned evil and systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? Child’s lifetime of bravery, conviction, humility, and determination provides a wealth of spirited guidance for political engagement today.

Lydia's Journey

Lydia's Journey
Author: Katherine Covell
Publisher: Somewhat Grumpy Press Inc.
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1738799816

Ten-year-old Lydia's life is upended in 1915 when soldiers storm her village at the start of the Armenian Genocide. Separated from her parents and younger brother, Lydia is marched from her home in Zeitun, through the desert, and into Syria. She's sold into slavery, and endures years of captivity. When her orphanage arranges her marriage, she emigrates to England, only to find herself in London during the World War II bombing. Inspired by family history and supported by extensive research, Lydia' story is a harrowing but ultimately reassuring story of resilience, faith, and survival.

Empowering Paths: Lydia Maria Child's Guide to Personal Development and Self-Reliance

Empowering Paths: Lydia Maria Child's Guide to Personal Development and Self-Reliance
Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Lydia Maria Child's Guide to Personal Development and Self-Reliance explores Lydia Maria Child's enduring legacy as a trailblazer in social reform and personal empowerment. This book draws upon her timeless principles to guide readers toward achieving self-reliance and personal fulfillment.

The Сlassic Сollection of Lydia Maria Child. Illustrated

The Сlassic Сollection of Lydia Maria Child. Illustrated
Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages: 1634
Release: 2023-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

We are delighted to present to you "The Classic Collection of Lydia Maria Child." This magnificent anthology brings together some of the most significant and inspiring works by one of the most influential American writers of the 19th century. Lydia Maria Child was not only a renowned author but also an activist, abolitionist, and advocate for women's rights. Her writings are characterized by a clear style, profound thoughts, and vivid descriptions of American life during that time. In this "Classic Collection," we have compiled some of her most well-known works, including "The American Frugal Housewife," "The Mother's Book," and "Looking Toward Sunset" – each of them an unparalleled masterpiece in its own right. "The American Frugal Housewife" is a practical guide to domestic management that became a bestseller in its time. In this book, Lydia Maria Child shares with you the secrets of economical and skillful household management, turning it into an art form. "The Mother's Book" is a valuable source of advice and guidance for mothers who aspire to raise strong, emotionally developed, and morally upright children. Child explores a wide range of parenting issues, from children's physical and mental well-being to their education and development. "Looking Toward Sunset" is a captivating collection of memoirs and essays in which Child reflects on aging, life experience, and the meaning of life. This book not only points the way to a fulfilling old age but also prompts us to contemplate the values we hold dear in our lives. The American Frugal Housewife The Mother's Book Looking Toward Sunset The Freedmen's Book Philothea: A Grecian Romance A Romance of the Republic

Lydia's Impatient Sisters

Lydia's Impatient Sisters
Author: Luise Schottroff
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1995-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664226084

Lydia's Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff's work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.

Lydia's Life

Lydia's Life
Author: Ida Nelle Daily Hollaway
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2006-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1597819271