Primary Works

Known as "the Sweet Singer of Hartford," Lydia Sigourney was a prolific writer who published over fifty books before her death. Among them:

Traits of the Aborigines of America, 1822; Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, 1824; Poems, 1827; Zinzendorff and Other Poems, 1835; Illustrated Poems, 1848; Past Meridian, 1854; Lucy Howard's Journal, 1858; Letters of Life, 1866.

 

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Baker, Dorothy Z. "Ars Poetica/Ars Domestica: The Self-Reflexive Poetry of Lydia Sigourney and Emily Dickinson." Poetics in the Poem: Critical Essays on American Self-Reflexive Poetry. Ed. Dorothy Z. Baker. NY: Peter Lang, 1997.

Baym, Nina. "Reinventing Lydia Sigourney." Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901. Ed. Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995. 66-85.

- - -. "Reinventing Lydia Sigourney." American Literature 62.3 (Sep 1990): 385-404.

Day, Betty H. "'This Comes of Writing Poetry': The Public and Private Voice of Lydia H. Sigourney." DAI 54.1 (Jul 1993): DA9315628.

De-Jong, Mary G. "Legacy Profile: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)." Legacy 5.1 (Sprg 1988): 35-43.

DeFoe, Gerard F. "Liquor and Learning: Temperance and Education in Lydia Sigourney, David Belasco, and Willa Cather." DAI 61.5 (Nov 2000): DA9974886.

Finch, Annie. "The Sentimental Poetess in the World: Metaphor and Subjectivity in Lydia Sigourney's Nature Poetry." Legacy 5.2 (Fall 1988): 3-18.

Gilmore, Susan. "Margaret Fuller 'Receiving' the 'Indians'." Margaret Fuller's Cultural Critique: Her Age and Legacy. NY: Peter Lang, 2000. 191-227.

Green, David B. "William Wordsworth and Lydia Huntley Sigourney." New England Quarterly 37 (1964): 527-531.

Johnson, Wendy D. "Serious Sentimentalism: A Rhetoric of Antebellum American Women's Verse." DAI 56.8 (Feb 1996): DA9541915.

Kilcup, Karen L. "Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 361-67.

Okker, Patricia. "Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Sigourney, and the Poetic Tradition in Two Nineteenth-Century Women's Magazines." American Periodicals 3 (1993): 32-42.

Petrino, Elizabeth A. "'Feet So Precious Charged': Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Child Elegy." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 13.2 (Fall 1994): 317-38.

Teed, Melissa L. "Work, Domesticity and Localism: Women's Public Identity in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut." DAI 60.11 (May 2000): DA9949129.

Wood, Ann D. "Mrs. Sigourney and the Sensibility of the Inner Space." New England Quarterly 45 (1972): 163-81.

Zagarell, Sandra A. "Expanding 'America': Lydia Sigourney's Sketch of Connecticut, Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 6.2 (Fall 1987): 225-45.

- - -. "Expanding 'America': Lydia Sigourney's Sketch of Connecticut, Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie." Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901. Ed. Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995. 43-65.

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