" A Romance of the Republic, published in 1867, was Lydia Maria
Child's fourth novel and the capstone of her remarkable literary
career. Written shortly after the Civil War, it offered a
progressive alternative to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Writer, magazine
publisher and outspoken abolititionist, Child defied the norms of
gender and class decorum in this novel by promoting interracial
marriage as a way blacks and whites could come to view each other
with sympathy and understanding. In constructing the tale of
fair-skinned Rosa and Flora Royal -- daughters of a slaveowner
whose mother was also the daughter of a slaveowner -- Child
consciously attempted to counter two popular claims: that racial
intermarriage was "unnatural" and that slavery was a benevolent
institution. But Child's target was not merely racism. Her
characters are forced both to reconsider their attitudes toward
"white" and "black" and to question the very foundation of the
patriarchal society in which they live. Lydia Maria Child
(1802-1880) is perhaps best known today as the editor of Harriet
Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She also founded
the first children's magazine in America, Juvenile Miscellany, and
compiled a highly successful domestic advice manual for women, The
Frugal Housewife.
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