Author:Lydia Huntley Sigourney

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Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865)

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney née Lydia Howard Huntley (1 September 1791 - 10 June 1865) was an American poetess and author who was extremely popular in her own time but is nearly forgotten today. 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."

Lydia 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)

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
• 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.[1]

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 by John Seely Hart
• “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