Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Lydia Hoyt Farmer
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Lydia Hoyt July 19, 1842 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Died	December 27, 1903(1903-12-27) (aged 61) Cleveland
Resting place	Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland
Occupation	author activist
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	poems essays juvenile literature historical sketches novels
Subject	women's rights
Partner	E. J. Farmer ​ (m. 1865)​

Lydia Hoyt Farmer (née, Hoyt; July 19, 1842 or 1843 – December 27, 1903) was a 19th-century American author and women's rights activist.^[1] For many years, Farmer contributed to the leading newspapers and magazines, on various lines: poems, essays, juvenile stories, historical sketches and novels. She was of a deeply religious nature, and endeavored to tinge all her writings with a moral as well as an amusing sentiment. She edited What America Owes to Women, for the Woman's Department of the World's Columbian Exposition.^[2] Her works included: Aunt Belindy's Point of View; The Doom of the Holy City; A Story Book of Science; A Knight of Faith; Short History of the French Revolution; Girls' Book of Famous Queens; What America Owes to Women; and others.^[3] Farmer died in 1903.