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the heart. I had seen aged people surrounded by indifferent persons, who considered their care a burden, and could not endure the thought that my tender parents, who were without near relatives, should be thrown upon the fluctuating kindness of hirelings and strangers. To me, my father already seemed aged, though scarcely sixty; and I said, in my musing hours, Shall he, who never denied me aught, or spoke to me otherwise than in love-tones, stretch forth his hands in their weakness, "and find none to gird him"? (241).
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Independence. She was kidnapped and sold as a slave to an American Merchant Joseph Langdon. He freed her and adopted her as his daughter. Garafilia was sent to go live with his family in Boston. Three years later Mohalbi died in 1830 at the age of 13 and became the subject of an artistic movement.
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On June 16, 1819, she married
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issues and injustices. An early advocate for social reform in slavery and in internal migration, Sigourney felt obligated to use her position to help oppressed members of society. In her posthumously published autobiography, "Letters of Life", Sigourney stated that she wrote with the hope of 'being
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Rev. E. B. Huntington wrote a small consideration of Mrs. Sigourney's life shortly after her death. He thought that her success came "because with gifts and success, she had with singular kindliness of heart made her very life-work itself a constant source of blessing and joy to others. Her very
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also featured the same subject in a miniature portrait which later became a popular engraving by E. Gallaudet an engraver from Boston. A mazurka was written by Carl
Gartner entitled "Garafilia" and a ship also bore the same name. Garafilia Mohalbi had been captured at the age of seven by the Turks
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I had ... reason for avoiding serious advances. My mind was made up never to leave my parents. I felt that their absorbing love could never be repaid by the longest life-service, and that the responsibility of an only child, their sole prop and solace, would be strictly regarded by Him who readeth
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Sigourney's commitment to education, writing, and charity was testimony to women's possibilities for self-betterment and, no doubt, a role model for women. When
Sigourney gave up her anonymity for good, she became the most widely known "authoress" and "poetess" in America. As a result, during the
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which views death as an escape to a better place, especially for children. There is also a strong flavour of patriotism with many poems linking to the formation of the
Republic, and also a large number of poems based on a wide variety of historical subjects. She was particularly strong in her
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When she was quite young, one of her neighbors, the Widow
Lathrop, was friendly with her and encouraged her to develop. After her friend Madam Lathrop died, Lydia was sent to visit Mrs. Jeremiah Wadsworth, an acquaintance of the Widow Lathrop in . This visit put her in contact with
436:, and Dorothy Z. Baker have studied Sigourney's successful attempt to establish herself as a distinctly American and distinctly female poet." Nina Baym writes about Sigourney's construction of her own identity that through canny participation, it continued throughout her lifetime.
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As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia
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451:.' Her writings were characterized by fluency, grace and quiet reflection on nature, domestic and religious life, and philanthropic questions; but they were also often sentimental, didactic and commonplace. Some of her blank verse and pictures of nature suggest
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goodness had made her great. Her genial goodwill had given her power. Her loving friendliness had made herself and her name everywhere a charm" (85). She wrote to inspire others, and
Huntingdon felt that she had been successful.
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Sentimental Poetess in the World: Metaphor and Subjectivity in Lydia Sigourney's Nature Poetry." Legacy, Fall 1987.
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that flourished in the United States in the 19th century, women named literary societies and study clubs in her honor, including the following examples:
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Eminent women of the age, being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation
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311:. (1836). A contemporary critic called her work, infused with morals, "more like the dew than the lightning".
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condemnation of slavery and the mistreatment of the indigenous Americans. Another aspect of her work is
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The Circumscribed Path: Nineteenth-Century American Poetesses.
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The Lady's Home Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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Baby's note to a Baby, with a pair of Coral Bracelets
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Rhetorical Theory by Women before 1900: an Anthology
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1102:United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 543
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1432:Niagara Falls Poetry Project – Sigourney poems
1038:The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945
1018:The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945
992:John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox
634:) — founded at Greensboro Female College (now
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1313:Huntington, Rev. E.B. "Lydia H. Sigourney."
1297:Mrs. Sigourney, The Sweet Singer of Hartford
1270:(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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763:(1833), one of her best-known books
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1338:Sigourney, Lydia Howard Huntley.
866:(1860), selections from her verse
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925:Andrew, John Albion (1869).
779:Zinzendorff, and Other Poems
725:Lydia Sigourney bibliography
492:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
467:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
426:Nineteenth Century Criticism
375:Zinzendorff, and Other Poems
240:Engraving of Lydia Sigourney
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1423:(public domain audiobooks)
1072:Zinzendorff and Other Poems
815:Pocahontas, and Other Poems
803:Pocahontas, and Other Poems
755:Evening Readings In History
718:Pocahontas and Other Poems.
580:Sigournian Literary Society
417:Sigourney, photographed by
344:gendered spheres of society
134:Mrs. Sigourney was born in
91:Charles Sigourney (m. 1819)
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1906:Adrianne Baughns-Wallace
1562:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1417:Works by Lydia Sigourney
1399:Works by Lydia Sigourney
1262:Sigourney, Lydia Huntley
1104:US Congress 1849: p. 147
1069:"Lydia Howard Sigourney"
828:Scenes in My Native Land
604:University of Evansville
474:an instrument of good'.
196:author of the anonymous
2704:American travel writers
2471:Clara Hill (suffragist)
2466:Sarah Lee Brown Fleming
2109:Martha Minerva Franklin
1602:Isabella Beecher Hooker
1306:Philadelphia, 1857. At
1267:Encyclopædia Britannica
1181:"Editors' Department,"
1074:Routeledge 1835: p. 212
761:Letters to Young Ladies
564:Gaffney, South Carolina
356:Letters to Young Ladies
205:John Greenleaf Whittier
98:Lydia Huntley Sigourney
34:Lydia Huntley Sigourney
18:Lydia Huntley Sigourney
2517:Khalilah L. Brown-Dean
2083:Patricia Goldman-Rakic
1979:Dotha Bushnell Hillyer
1816:Constance Baker Motley
1189:Arthur's Home Magazine
1114:"Stephen Henry Gimber"
963:Sigourney, pp. 325–326
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1963:Miriam Therese Winter
1847:Jane Hamilton-Merritt
1687:Harriet Beecher Stowe
1682:Hilda Crosby Standish
1677:Smiths of Glastonbury
1672:Virginia Thrall Smith
1607:Emeline Roberts Jones
1552:Katharine Seymour Day
1522:Beatrice Fox Auerbach
1227:Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia
1036:Watts, Emily Stipes.
1016:Watts, Emily Stipes.
990:Wagenknecht, Edward.
911:"Lydia Sigourney" in
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2527:Callie Gale Heilmann
1937:Maria Miller Stewart
1911:Mary Goodrich Jenson
1795:Laura Wheeler Waring
1692:Gladys Tantaquidgeon
1647:Theodate Pope Riddle
1622:Rachel Taylor Milton
1324:Kolker, Amy Sparks.
1223:Cousin, John William
1204:Topeka, 1920, p. 11.
1143:www.niagarapoetry.ca
858:The Daily Counsellor
834:Letters to My Pupils
459:for the 2010 album,
399:Madeleine de Scudéry
391:Letters to My Pupils
156:She was educated in
136:Norwich, Connecticut
107:Lydia Howard Huntley
64:Norwich, Connecticut
52:Lydia Howard Huntley
2532:Jerimarie Liesegang
2251:Augusta Lewis Troup
2062:Glenna Collett-Vare
2005:Helen Frankenthaler
1831:Mabel Osgood Wright
1738:MarĂa ColĂłn Sánchez
1702:Hannah Bunce Watson
1652:Edna Negron Rosario
1612:Barbara B. Kennelly
1527:Emma Fielding Baker
1170:Books Between Bites
1139:"Table of Contents"
785:Poetry for Children
648:) — founded at the
600:Evansville, Indiana
503:Keokuk County, Iowa
2694:American essayists
2461:Catherine Flanagan
2456:Frances Ellen Burr
2355:Regina Rush-Kittle
2184:Isabelle M. Kelley
2168:Maggie Wilderotter
2088:Barbara McClintock
2078:Jewel Plummer Cobb
1932:Catherine Roraback
1707:Chase G. Woodhouse
1349:Sigourney, Lydia.
1342:. New York, 1867.
1302:Hart, John Seely.
1003:Brooks, Van Wyck.
797:Letters to Mothers
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642:Sigournean Society
636:Greensboro College
628:Sigournean Society
610:Sigournean Society
592:Sigournean Society
586:Sigournian Society
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