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Abby Morton Diaz was an American writer and suffragist. She was most widely known by her humorous and homely stories for children. Though her drama, natural history series and metaphysical works were popular, too.
Background
Abby Morton Diaz was born on November 22, 1821 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. She was the only girl among the six children of Ichabod and Patty (Weston) Morton. Her father was described by Emerson as “a plain man who formerly engaged in the fisheries with success”. It was said of him that he was a Puritan divested of all the Puritan's superstition and bigotry and seems sure that as concerned organized religion both he and his daughter were at the opposite extreme from dogmatism. Once while he was in Boston he saw by a supernatural light which flooded his room a vision of a world governed by the principles of human brotherhood. He determined to help make this vision a reality, and to that end became a temperance worker and later the pioneer abolitionist of Plymouth.
Career
Abby was still a child but she quickly made the slaves’ cause her own, and became secretary of a juvenile abolitionist society.
Later, when her father’s interest shifted to the Brook Farm activities—he was a trustee December 1842-April 1843—she and two of her brothers were sent there to live. The entire family joined them in the spring of 1843. After two weeks, persuaded that sentiment rather than sound judgment was ruling the community, Ichabod abandoned the house he had built, and went home. Abby remained longer, a teacher in the infant school. Later she began teaching school in Plymouth. It was her habit to write verse for use in local festivities, and in May 1861, the Atlantic Monthly published her “Pink and Blue, ” a prose story of “how I won my wife. ” Upon this she determined to devote her life to writing, and from then till the close of the century she published books at a rate of considerably more than one every two years.
The series beginning with The William Henry Letters (1870) having become within five years so popular that they were turned into drama. In 1878, with N. A. Calkins, she published a natural history series, setting forth in six booklets the family history of creatures ranging from cow to condor. She was also active as an emancipator of women, slaves, as she expressed it, “of the rolling-pin". Her concern was to explain “how woman may enjoy the delights of culture and at the same time fulfil her duties to family and household”. She discussed this subject in four books, the most vigorous, perhaps, Only a Flock of Women (1893).
As early as 1876 she published Neighborhood Talks on arbitration versus war, and as ears went on she interested herself in questions of always greater magnitude and vagueness.
She contributed articles to the Metaphysical Magazine (New York), wrote four papers on the “Science of Human Beings, ” and from December 1901 to September 1902, published in the magazine Mind (New York) a long sequence of articles called “Hindrances to World Betterment. ”
After about 1880, she lived in Belmont, Massachusetts.