Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney
Född	1 september 1791[1][2][3] Norwich[4][5], USA
Död	10 juni 1865[1][2][3] (73 år)
Andra namn	A Lady[6]
Medborgare i	USA
Sysselsättning	Författare[7][8], essäist, poet[4], barnboksförfattare, självbiograf
Utmärkelser
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (1994)[9]
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Lydia Huntley Sigourney, född den 1 september 1791 i Norwich, Connecticut, död den 10 juni 1865, var en populär amerikansk poet under början och mitten av 1800-talet. Hon var allmänt känd som "Sweet Singer of Hartford". De flesta av hennes böcker publicerades med hennes namn som gift, Mrs. Sigourney. Två av hennes mest kända dikter är Niagara och Indian Names.

Bibliografi

• Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse (1815)
• Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822)
• A Sketch of Connecticut Forty Years Since (1824)
• Poems (1827)
• Letters to Young Ladies (1833)
• Sketches (1834)
• Poetry for Children (1834)
• Zinzendorff, and Other Poems (1835)
• Olive Buds (1836)
• Letters to Mothers (1838)
• Pocahontas, and Other Poems (1841)
• Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands (1842)
• Scenes in My Native Land (1844)
• Letters to My Pupils (1851)
• Olive Leaves (1851)
• The Faded Hope (1852)
• Past Meridian (1854)
• The Daily Counsellor (1858)
• Gleanings (1860)
• The Man of Uz, and Other Poems (1862)
• Letters of Life (1866)

Externa länkar

• Finch, Annie. "An Unsung Singer. "The Sentimental Poetess in the World: Metaphor and Subjectivity in Lydia Sigourney's Nature Poetry." Legacy, Fall 1987.
• Griffin, George. Lydia H. Sigourney Papers
• "Lydia Sigourney." Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism Article on Sigourney
• Verk av Lydia Howard Sigourney på Project Gutenberg *The Heath Anthology of American Literature's article about Lydia Sigourney
• Niagara Falls Poetry Project - Sigourney poems
• The Victorian Web: Lydia Sigourney

Vidare läsning

• Collin, Grace Lathrop. "Lydia Huntley Sigourney", en biografi publicerad i New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, New Series, republished in Vol. 27. Boston: America Company, 1902 (tillgänglig vid Google Books).
• Haight, Gordon S. Mrs. Sigourney, The Sweet Singer of Hartford. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930.
• Hart, John Seely. The Female Prose Writers of America Philadelphia, 1857. At Google Books.
• Huntington, Rev. E.B. "Lydia H. Sigourney." Eminent women of the age, being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation. Hartford, Conn., 1868. Image at Google Books.
• Kolker, Amy Sparks. The Circumscribed Path: Nineteenth-Century American Poetesses. Diss. University of Kansas, 1999. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1999. 9941646.
• Mattheu, Elizabeth-Christina. "Britannia's Poet! Graecia's Hero, Sleeps! ...": Philhellenic Poetry by Women, 1817-1852. Diss. University of Athens, 2001. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2001. 3015876.
• Sigourney, Lydia Howard Huntley. Letters of Life. New York, 1867. E-text at the Internet Archive.
• Teed, Melissa Ladd. Work, Domesticity and Localism: Women's Public Identity in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut. Avhandling vid University of Connecticut, 1999. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2000. 9949129.

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