to My Pupils (1851) Olive Leaves (1851) The Faded Hope (1852) in memory of her only son, who died when he was nineteen years old Past Meridian (1854) The Daily Counsellor (1858), poems Gleanings (1860), selections from her verse The Man of Uz, and Other Poems (1862) Letters of Life (1866), giving an account of her career Popular culture In 1837, Henry Russell used Ms. Sigourney's poem for his song Washingtons Tomb. References Further reading Collin, Grace Lathrop. "Lydia Huntley Sigourney", a biography published in New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, New Series, republished in Vol. 27. Boston: America Company, 1902 (available at Internet Archive). 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 Internet Archive. 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 Internet Archive. 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. Sigourney, Lydia. Lydia Sigourney: Selected Poetry and Prose. Gary Kelly Ed. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2008. . Teed, Melissa Ladd. Work, Domesticity and Localism: Women's Public Identity in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut. Diss. University of Connecticut, 1999. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2000. 9949129. External links 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 Niagara Falls Poetry Project – Sigourney poems The Victorian Web: Lydia Sigourney Sigourney correspondence at Mount Holyoke College 1791 births 1865 deaths People from Norwich, Connecticut American women poets American children's writers American essayists 19th-century American memoirists American travel writers English-language poets Writers from Connecticut American women travel writers 19th-century American poets American women memoirists American women essayists American women children's writers 19th-century American women writers