Author:Lydia Huntley Sigourney

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)

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American poetess and author who was extremely popular in her own time,. Some of her works were published anonymously; the majority were published under the variations of her name "L. H. S.", "Mrs. Sigourney", or "Mrs. L. H. Sigourney"; née Lydia Howard Huntley

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Works

Books

• Biographies of the Great & Good
• Letters of Life (transcription project)
• Letters to Mothers (transcription project)
• Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands (transcription project)
• Pocahontas, and Other Poems (transcription project)
• Poems for the Sea
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since (transcription project)
• Select poems (1838) [1]
• Poems for seamen (1845) [2]
• Water-drops (1848) [3]
• Poems for the sea (1850) [4]
• Illustrated poems (1853) [5]
• Past meridian (1854) [6]
• Savings of the little ones, and poems of their mothers (1855) [7]

Poetry

• Bread in the Wilderness
• Charity Never Faileth
• Farewell of the Soul to the Body
• Go To Thy Rest
• General Putnam
• How Far From Home
• Indian Names
• Man—Woman
• Memory
• To a Shred of Linen
• Sleeping Child
• The Bride
• The Butterfly
• The Chair of the Indian King [Uncas]
• The Cheerful Giver
• The Coral Insect
• The Defection of the Disciples
• The Liberated Prisoner
• The Ruler's Faith
• The Widow at Her Daughter's Bridal

Hymns

• Active Piety
• Burial of a Friend
• Child's Prayer at entering Church
• Death of a Pastor
• Harvest
• Marriage Hymn
• Prayer at Sea

Tributes

• John Trumbull

Short Didactic Works

• An Elder Sister
• Memories and Legends of Connecticut

• My Native Place
• A Lady of the Olden School
• Miss Tabitha's Farming

Biographies

• Sketch of the Life of the Author [Hannah More] from The Works of Hannah More, Boston: S.G. Goodrich, 1827.[8]

Works about Sigourney

• "Lydia H. Sigourney, Inscription on Tablet" by John Greenleaf Whittier
• "Lydia H. Sigourney," in The Female Prose Writers of America: With Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of their Writings, (ed.) by John S. Hart, Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co. (1852)
• "Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Sigourney, Lydia Huntley," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lydia Huntley Sigourney," in A Woman of the Century, (ed.) by Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton (1893)