Surname: Sigourney Forename(s): Lydia Howard Huntley b. 1 September 1791. d. 10 June 1865. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Poet and philanthropist. Née “Huntley.” Published as “Mrs. Sigourney” and “L. H. Sigourney.”
Founded a girls’ school in Norwich in 1811. Advocated for women’s education and Native
American rights. Married Charles Sigourney on 16 June 1819. Travelled to England and
France in 1840, a trip on which she based Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands (1842). Author of Poems (1827), Letters to Young Ladies (1833), Pocahontas and Other Poems (1841), and Western Home, and Other Poems (1854). Biographical information: Curran Index, ANB. (SP)