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Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
, which Hart, in his selections from the Female Prose Writers gives us, when he so graphically and truthfully says of her writings, that they are more like the dew than the lightning. Peter Parley pronounced her, next to Willis, the most successful and liberal contributor to the Token. Professor Cleveland, in his Compend of English Literature, could not more truthfully have characterized her writings than he did, as pure, lofty, and holy in tendency and influence. C. W. Everest, in his Connecticut Poets, only repeats the common judgment in his decision, Love and religion are the unvarying elements of her song. E. P. Whipple, the very Nestor of our critics, was obliged to bear testimony to the popularity of her works. He speaks of her facility in versification, and her fluency both in thought and language; and only claims, what all critics will easily allow, that from the very quantity of her writing, she hardly does justice to her real powers. But we need not pursue our citat
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5
rself down, joyful and trustful yet, in her own home, vacated indeed of her loved ones, but filled still with precious mementos of their love, until her own change should come. These forty-six years, between her marriage and her death, were mainly spent at her home in Hartford. Her travels were chiefly those of brief journeys through the Eastern and Middle States. Once she visited Virginia, and once crossed the Atlantic, visiting within the year the chief points of attraction in England, Scotland, and France. The rest of those forty-six years were most industriously employed in her own loved home, filled up with domestic duties or with literary and benevolent work; and it is safe to say that few women have ever worked to better account. She won universal respect and love. The poor and the rich, the ignorant and the educated, alike found in her that which delighted and charmed them; and so she came to occupy a place in their affections which they accorded to no other. But, doub
Dublin (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
t fragment of indigo, begged of the washer-woman, those coffee-grounds — to give the ambered brown, and those child-experiments, again and again repeated, to secure desired tints. We may note, too, about this time, how the literary taste and enthusiasm of the child was aroused. How life-like was its beginning She started a story, which the record does not finish; for they all said it was too much for her. She was only just eight years old. Next we find her in the school of a graduate of Dublin, and here she makes rapid progress in mathematics. Her next step forward, in the school on the Green, under an educated and veteran teacher, places her at the head of the reading-classes. Then, under the training of Mr. Pelatiah Perit, who became so eminent among the business men of the country, she spent another year of successful study. Pursuing still the English classics and Latin, she finished in her fourteenth year her school-life at home. Then followed a course of domestic trainin
Meridian (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
8; Zinzendorf, and other Poems 1835, 2d edition, pp. 300; Pocahontas, and other Poems, 1841, pp. 284; London edition, 1841, pp. 348; Select Poems, 1842, pp. 324, fourth edition, of which eight thousand copies had been already sold; Illustrated edition, 1848, pp. 408; Western Home, and other Poems, 1854, pp. 360; and Gleanings, 1860, pp. 264. Of her prose works we can only indicate that which most clearly establishes the writer's rank among our very best prose-writers of the age. Her Past Meridian, given to the world in her sixty-fifth year, which has now reached its fourth edition, is one of our most charming classics. One cannot read those delightful pages, without gratitude that the gifted author was spared to give us such a coronal of her useful authorship. It were easy to collect quite a volume of the most enthusiastic commendations of this charming work; but we must leave it, with the assurance that it gives a new title to its beloved author to a perpetual fame in English lit
Huguenot (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
in 1815, at the expense of Mr. Wadsworth. And the list of subscribers, which was also printed, indicates thus early the reputation which newspaper publicity had given her. But another event soon interrupts her career as teacher. Charles Sigourney, a merchant of the city, a gentleman of wealth and literary culture and high social position, solicits and wins her hand. Their marriage was celebrated in the Episcopal church of her native town, in the early summer of 1819. Mr. Sigourney, of Huguenot descent, was already a communicant in the Episcopal church; and, on her marriage, Mrs. Sigourney, who, since 1809, had been a devoted Christian and a member of the Congregational church, felt it to be her privilege and duty to transfer her membership to the church to which her husband belonged. This marriage threw upon Mrs. Sigourney the care of the three children of her husband by a former wife; and that care was assumed with a singular devotion to their comfort and welfare; and in thi
Chelsea (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ng her later girlhood to the study of even the original Hebrew of the Christian Scriptures. And now begins her career as teacher,--a life which she seems to have chosen scarcely more for want of something to do than from love of teaching itself. Her first experiment had been made in her father's house, and the result confirmed her purpose to make it her life-work. In her nineteenth year, in company with Miss Nancy M. Hyde, a very intimate friend, she opened a select school for girls in Chelsea, now Norwich City. Her interest in the work was very great, and her success no less so. We can readily accept her later testimony that she found her daily employment less a toil than privilege. But, through the influence of Mr. Daniel Wadsworth, of Hartford, she was induced to establish for herself a private school for girls in that city; and, in 1814, she entered upon its duties. During the five years she remained in this school she won a twofold reputation. Her success as teacher wa
Meriden (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ing the noble devotion of the pleading Queen Philippa, sketch herself:-- The advocate of sorrow, and the friend Of those whom all forsake. We cannot but return to this ruling spirit of her life, equally unaffected and controlling in her girlhood and her latest years. Her gifts of charity and love often exceeded the allowance of her income which she saved for herself. What monuments she thus built for herself in grateful hearts! Witness her frequent visits to the Reform School in Meriden. Those delighted boys cannot soon forget that beautiful orchard, whose thrifty trees she gave as her blessing to them; nor that last gift, the generous Easter cake, which made that festival so joyous to them; nor, most of all, that beautiful smile of hers, always so radiant with her hearty good — will and hope. Oh, there was a blessing in that presence, even for young lives that have been tempted down into the dark shadows of a premature disgrace! Or who shall make her presence good to
Norwich (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ltivated womanhood? Lydia Howard Huntley, the only child of Ezekiel and Sophia (Wentworth) Huntley, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, Sept. 1, 1791. In her parentage and birthplace we have no indistinct prophecy of her future life. Their lessonsat bring A spell o'er our souls when existence was young. So nurtured, we can understand the secret of that love for Norwich and its scenery which she never failed to show to her latest day. It only needed an invitation to her to revisit the deaed home-influence, which was destined to prove educational to her. Madame Lathrop, one of the noblest of the many worthy Norwich matrons of that day, a daughter of Governor Talcott, of Hartford, and widow of Daniel Lathrop, a wealthy and accomplished citizen of Norwich, had made her own elegant and hospitable home that also of the Huntley family. She took great interest in Lydia, and drew strongly to her own the heart of the sensitive girl. And did she not, in the daily communing of their s
Fort Niagara (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
he first magazines of the day, and from the more solid works issuing from our best publishing-houses, of itself testifies to the great merit even of her style. No critic can read that beautiful poem on the Death of an infant, commencing with Death found strange beauty on that polished brow, And dashed it out, without feeling that none but a true poet, practised in the art, could have written it. We might instance her Scottish weaver, Breakfast, Birthday of Longfellow, My stuffed Owl, Niagara, and hundreds of other poems, in all of which may be found passages of great beauty and power. We are sure we cannot afford, these many years, to let those graceful, and at times exquisite, gems, drop out of our literature; nor can we doubt that their author will continue to rank high even among the poets of her age. Without space for repeating the entire list, even of her poetic works, it is due to our readers to indicate those which shall best exhibit the merits and the extent of her
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
the noblest of the many worthy Norwich matrons of that day, a daughter of Governor Talcott, of Hartford, and widow of Daniel Lathrop, a wealthy and accomplished citizen of Norwich, had made her own private study of the Latin. For the higher ornamental branches she spent parts of two years in Hartford; and, with more than ordinary mental activity and attainment, she takes leave of her school-lif employment less a toil than privilege. But, through the influence of Mr. Daniel Wadsworth, of Hartford, she was induced to establish for herself a private school for girls in that city; and, in 1814fluence which had so long blessed their mothers. But, from the very beginning of her life in Hartford, she made for herself a place in the confidence and affections of the people, which every succee. These forty-six years, between her marriage and her death, were mainly spent at her home in Hartford. Her travels were chiefly those of brief journeys through the Eastern and Middle States. Once
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