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Gender and Race Issues in 19th Century Literature

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and Child and her work has not surfaced until the last decade. In this discussion we will look at the work of Child and her contemporary, Catherine Maria Sedgwicks, particularly  how these nineteenth century women wrote of race and gender issues. Bibliography lists 10 sources. BB19cgen.doc NINETEENTH CENTURY RACE AND GENDER ISSUES As Presented in  the Novels of Lydia Maria Child and Catherine Maria Sedgewicks Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., May 2001  Introduction According to Kolodny (1998), " In a life that spanned almost the whole of the nineteenth century (1802-1880), Lydia Maria Child wrote about and lived within controversy, becoming a  "household name" when still relatively young. But that was almost two centuries ago, and Child and her work has not surfaced until the last decade. In this discussion we  will look at the work of Child and her contemporary, Catherine Maria Sedgwicks, particularly how these nineteenth century women spoke of race and gender issues. Hobomok: A Tale of  Early Times. (1824) by Lydia Maria Child This novel was the first American fiction to reflect a marriage relationship between an English woman and a Native American. Although  passionately involved in the struggles of minorities and minority issues, Childs biographer, Carolyn Karcher (1998), readily admits the Child "would never succeed in formulating an ideal of human brotherhood  that did not involve the absorption of other cultures into her own." Karchner adds that Child "may have been ahead of her time, but that she certainly was a  part of her time." We do notice this "part of her times," aspect in Hobomok, in the dialogue of the Indian. Everyone else in the novel speaks in a