Lydia Hoyt Farmer (, Hoyt; July 19, 1842 or 1843 – December 27, 1903) was a 19th-century American author and women's rights activist. 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. 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. Farmer died in 1903.
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Lydia Hoyt Farmer (, Hoyt; July 19, 1842 or 1843 – December 27, 1903) was a 19th-century American author and women's rights activist. 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. 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. Farmer died in 1903.
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