Lydia Sigourney [née Huntley]

(1791-1865)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 LBT ID: LySigou1865 VIAF ID: 67241256 LOC ID: n80010427	B/BAP: 1791-09-01 DIED: 1865-06-10
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Connecticut poet and essayist, a schoolteacher before her marriage to Charles Sigourney in 1819; her poem appeared in the Connecticut Mirror and the Atlantic Souvenir.
REFERENCES TO Lydia Sigourney [née Huntley]: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Death of Harriet Found 1: ¶ 14 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter X. 1852-55. Found 2: ¶ 9-11 ¶ 9-26 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXVII. Found 1: ¶ 30