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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) - Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse
- Poems (1827)
- Poems (1834)
- Poems for Children
- Zinzendorff and Other Poems
- Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands (transcription project)
- Pocahontas, and Other Poems (New York Edition)
- Pocahontas, and Other Poems (London Edition) (transcription project)
- Poems for the Sea
- Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since
(transcription project) - Select poems (1838)
- Poems for seamen (1845)
- Water-drops (1848)
- Poems for the sea (1850)
- Illustrated poems (1853)
- Past meridian (1854)
- Savings of the little ones, and poems of their mothers (1855)
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
Tributes
Short Didactic Works
- An Elder Sister
- Memories and Legends of Connecticut
Biographies
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)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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