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[sĭg´or-nĭ], Mrs. Lydia Howard [Huntly]. Ct., 1791-1865. One of the most popular of the earlier American writers, but now quite neglected. Her fifty-three volumes of prose and verse were adapted to an uncritical audience that demanded only gentle feeling and excellence of intention, and they served their purpose well in their day. Her verse is not without sweetne , but it never strays far beyond the realm of the commonplace. 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; Letters of Life (1866). Other works are, Pocahontas; Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse; Poetry for Children; Zinzendorf, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; All i bone’s Dictionary; Stone’s First Editions of American Authors. Har.