LYDIA HOWARD (HUNTLEY) SIGOURNEY (1 September 1791-10 June 1865), author, known at the height of her fame as "the sweet singer of Hartford" and "the American Mrs. Hemans," has not sustained her popula...
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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, "the sweet singer of Hartford," was with little doubt the most popular poet of the nineteenth century. Her work, which included volumes of prose and poetry and innumera...
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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney's place in magazine history is deserved more for her prodigious production of prose and poetry than for her editorship of Godey's Lady's Book and the Ladies' Companion. ...
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In a review of her Zinzendorff, and Other Poems (1835) in the January 1836 Southern Literary Messenger, Edgar Allan Poe criticized Lydia H. Sigourney's writing as derivative and said that she benefite...
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"Have I imparted to others, a single pious sentiment, or moral precept for the direction of conduct""-- Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney once wrote in " Self-Examination," an 8 April 1821 letter held at...
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Contemporaries considered Lydia Sigourney the most popular poet in America and the woman most respected and loved by the American people. Her fame rivaled that of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and surpas...
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Lydia Howard (Huntley) Sigourney
