Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865

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Birth 1791-09-01
Death 1865-06-10
Birth 1791
Death 1865

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American author. b. Lydia Howard Huntley.

From the description of Correspondence, 1839-1846. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 24917231

Author Sigourney was known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford." For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971).

From the description of Papers, 1834-1865 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007487

American author. Born Lydia Howard Huntley, m. Charles Sigourney.

From the description of ALsS : Hartford, Conn., to her publishers, Philadelphia, 1836-1854. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122617069

Asa Bullard was secretary of the Massachusetts Sunday School Society.

From the description of Letters to Asa Bullard, 1837-1859. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 32695933

American author (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney).

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hartford, Conn., to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1840 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662644

Lydia Howard Signourney, the Connecticut author known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford," was a popular and prolific writer, producing more than 50 books and contributing to numerous periodicals and literary annuals.

From the description of [Note] 1850 March 14, Hartford [Conn.] (University of South Florida). WorldCat record id: 70159293

American poet, sometimes called: Sweet singer of Hartford.

From the description of Farewell / L. H. Sigourney. 1845. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 433127506

Boswell was editor of the Connecticut Courant at that time.

From the description of Note, 1854 July 24, Hartford, Conn., to John Boswell, Hartford, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 32198042

American authoress.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hartford, to Theodore Dwight, 1829 Sept. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662658

From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Rev. C.C. Van Asdalen, 1836 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270663882

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hartford, Conn., to Bishop McIlvaine, 1855 Mar. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662660

From the description of Autograph poem signed : Hartford, Conn., 1862 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664517

American poet.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hartford, to Thomas Jefferson, 1824 June 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662651

American writer.

From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Hartford, Connecticut, to an unidentified recipient, 1864 May 11. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806350

From the description of L.H. Sigourney papers [manuscript], 1830-1865. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999855

Nathan Peabody Ames manufactured bells and brass cannon in Chicopee, Mass.; in 1840 the U.S. Ordnance Dept. sent him to Europe to study arsenals and gun factories.

From the description of Letter, 1842 February 9, Hartford, Conn., to Nathan P. Ames, Springfield, Mass. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13291503

Lydia Howard Sigourney, the Connecticut writer known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford," was a popular and prolific author, especially of sentimental verse. She produced more than fifty books and contributed numerous essays and poems to periodicals and literary annuals.

From the description of [Letter, ca. 1852, London?] (University of South Florida). WorldCat record id: 70159409

American author, of Hartford, Conn.

From the description of Papers, 1832-1865. (Trinity College Library). WorldCat record id: 61457071

Lydia Howard Signourney, the Connecticut author known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford," was a popular and prolific writer, producing more than 50 books and contributing to numerous periodicals and literary annuals. Mrs. Stedman may have been the wife of poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman.

From the description of [Letter, ca. 1859? Hartford, Conn.? to] Mrs. [Edmund Clarence?] Stedman / L.H.S. (University of South Florida). WorldCat record id: 71330970

American poet and philanthropist.

From the description of Fragment of an autograph letter signed : place not specified, to an unidentified recipient, [18--?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 709591350

Mary Huntley Sigourney Russell was Lydia Sigourney's daughter.

From the description of Letter, 1857 February 13, Hartford, Conn., to Maria. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 15724060

American author.

From the description of Papers : of L.H. Sigourney, 1847-1851 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647824608

From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) one with initials and one incomplete : Hartford, Conn., to Harpers and Brothers, 1846 Oct. 8-1855 Aug. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664248

Lydia Howard Huntley was born on September 1, 1791 in Norwich, Connecticut to Ezekiel and Zerviah Wentworth Huntley. She attended various local schools and female seminaries. In 1811 she opened a school for young women in Norwich. A friend of Mary Lyon's, Huntley often consulted the former for advice. In 1814 she moved to Hartford, where she ran another school, and in 1815 published her first book, entitled "Moral pieces, in prose and verse". She stopped teaching in 1819 because of her marriage to Charles Sigourney; however, she continued to write. Between 1840 and 1850 she published 14 volumes of poetry and prose. She had two children. She died on June 10, 1865 in Hartford, Connecticut.

From the guide to the Sigourney correspondence MS 0586., 1839-1846., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

Lydia Howard Sigourney was the most popular poet in America and the most admired American woman of her day. A native of Connecticut, she was a devoted wife and mother, and themes of domesticity, morality, and nurturing pervade her works; the moral and sentimental elements in her work contributed to a decline in popularity after her death. She was also actively involved in education and social issues, including the plight of the Native American.

From the description of Lydia Howard Sigourney letters and poems, 1816-1859. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50045994

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