Tongue of Flame (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Milton Meltzer
- First Published: 1965
- Time of Work: 1802–1880
- Setting: Boston, Northampton, and Wayland, Massachusetts; and New York City
- Principal Characters: Lydia Maria Child, David Lee Child, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Journalism or journalists, Social reform, Abolitionists, Authors or writers, Marriage, Writing, New England, Women’s issues, Civil War, Women’s rights, Biography
- Locales: New York, NY, Massachusetts
Form and Content
Milton Meltzer’s biography of Lydia Maria Child, Tongue of Flame: The Life of Lydia Maria Child, is a chronological overview of the life of an extraordinary nineteenth century woman, culled mainly from her voluminous correspondence and published writings.
The book quickly covers Child’s early years and early teaching career as well as her marriage, at the age of twenty-six, to David Lee Child, a committed reformer and abolitionist. Child’s marriage was troubled, however, by her husband’s tendency to philosophize and dream rather than to...
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