Sigourney, Mrs
LYDIA HOWARD [HUNTLY], author, poet, was born Sept. 1, 1791, in Norwich, Conn. She was one of the most popular of the earlier American writers. She was nearly all her life a resident of Hartford.
Among her prose writings are Myrtis; Post Meridian; Letters to My Pupils; Letters to Young Ladies; Traits of the Aborigines in America; and Letters of Life. Other Works are Pocahontas; Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse; Poetry for Children; and Zinzendorf, and Other Poems. She died June 10, 1865, in Hartford, Conn.