1 September 1791 – 10 June 1865
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Photographer: Burt F. Alexander Date: about 1828 Occasion: Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Permissions: http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/
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Pertinent Archives:
Boston Public Library (manuscript poems, correspondence, letters to Edgar Allan Poe) (http://www.bpl.org/)
Chicago Historical Society (correspondence and misc. published and unpublished writings of women including Sigourney) (http://www.chicagohistory.org/)
Chicago Public Library, Special Collections (letter to Mrs. Salter and an engraving of Sigourney by H. Adlord) (http://www.chipublib.org/branch/details/library/harold-washington/p/Spc/) Connecticut Historical Society (ca. 400 letters, poems, drafts of essays, memoranda, scrapbook, and other documents to and from Sigourney) (http://www.chs.org/)
Connecticut State Library, Archives, History, and Genealogy Unit (correspondence, poems, and a hymn) (http://www.cslib.org/handg.htm)
The Huntington Library (correspondence and verse) (http://www.huntington.org/)
Middlebury College, Abernethy Collection of American Literature (correspondence and drafts of women including Sigourney) (http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/lis/about/library_info/special_collections/collections/abernethy/)
New Haven Colony Historical Society (research notes of Mary Cornwall Hewitt Mitchell on Sigourney) (http://www.newhavenmuseum.org/)
New York Historical Society (correspondence with Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta and publishers Carey and Hart, a volume of manuscript prose and poetry) (http://www.nyhistory.org)
The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives (correspondence with Robert Bonner, William Cullen Bryant, Parke Godwin, and Theodore Dwight, Jr.) (http://www.nypl.org)
Schlesinger Library (correspondence) (http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/)
Smith College, Neilson Library, Rare Book Room (letters and/or literary manuscripts) (http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/)
Stanford University Libraries, Manuscripts Division (1884 poem) (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/mss/index.html)
Trinity College, Watkinson Library (correspondence, manuscript of the school textbook she wrote, manuscript and printed poetry, photos and daguerreotypes, clippings, memorabilia, and other material) (http://library.trincoll.edu/research/watk/)
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Manuscripts Division (letters to Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill and Cornelius Tuthill) (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LHRD/msscat.html)
Wilkes College Library (a letter to Mr. Butler of Wyoming) (http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/659.asp)
Legacy References:
Barrett, Faith. “Review of Mary Loeffelholz’s From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry.” Legacy 22.2 (2005): 196. [LION]
Dobson, Joanne. “‘The Invisible Lady’: Emily Dickinson and Conventions of the Female Self.” Legacy 3.1 (1986): 41-55.
Finch, Annie. “The Sentimental Poetess in the World: Metaphor and Subjectivity in Lydia Sigourney’s Nature Poetry.” Legacy 5.2 (1988): 3-18.
Harris, Sharon M. “Review of Elaine Showalter’s Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing.” Legacy 10.2 (1993): 142-43.
Samuels, Shirley. “Review of Mary Louise Kete’s Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America and Lori Merish’s Sentimental Materialism.” Legacy 18.2 (2001): 250. [GW] [LION]
Streeby, Shelley. “Review of Etsuko Taketani’s US women writers and the discourses of colonialism, 1825-1861.” Legacy 22.1 (2005): 74-5. [LION]
Voeller, Carey R. “‘I have not told half we suffered’: Overland Trail Women’s Narratives and the Genre of Suppressed Textual Mourning.” Legacy 23.2 (2006): 148-62. [LION]
de Jong, Mary G. Legacy Profile: “Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney.” Legacy 5.1 (1988): 35-44.
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 
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