Diaries, 1820-1822.

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Diaries, 1820-1822.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49680888

Record of activities of Hartford author, including going to hear a ventriloquist, hiring Mrs. Roberts to hatchel flax and having her ice cream spoiled because salt fell into it.

3 v. ; 18 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...