LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 224747
Price: $200.00
LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY
The Victorian-age writer signs her name and sentiments in black
ink
Autograph sentiment signed: "believe me ever, your truly,/
affectionate friend,/ L.H. Sigourney" in black ink. 4¾x1½ clipping. Lydia
Howard Sigourney (1791-1865) was a nineteenth-century American writer, one
of the country's first females to have a successful literary career. Sigourney
(then Miss Huntley) was working as a schoolteacher when she published her first
work Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse (1815). Upon her marriage to
a Charles Sigourney, she devoted her life to writing, penning some 67 books and
more than a thousand articles during her career; she was pursued by editors such
as Louis Godey of Lady's Book and Edgar Allen Poe of Graham's Lady's
and Gentleman's Magazine. Sigourney's work relied on sentimental Victorian
conventions of moral and religious themes; death and piety were her most popular
subjects. Her work included Letters to Young Ladies (1833,
Illustrated Poems (1849), and her autobiography Letters of
Life (1866). Irregularly cut. Toned. Soiled and slightly stained. Ink
and pencil notes on verso in unknown hand. Otherwise, fine condition.
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