{"id":726,"date":"2012-02-27T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=726"},"modified":"2022-07-03T19:17:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T19:17:10","slug":"sigourney-lydia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/s\/sigourney-lydia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney, Lydia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/files\/2012\/02\/Lydia-Sigourney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2179\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/files\/2012\/02\/Lydia-Sigourney.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Sigourney\" width=\"149\" height=\"180\"><\/a><em>by Karen Woods Weierman&nbsp;<\/em>(2000)<\/p>\n<p>SIGOURNEY, LYDIA [HOWARD HUNTLEY] (1791-1865). Lydia Sigourney, the &#8220;sweet singer of Hartford,&#8221; was one of the most famous literary women in nineteenth-century America. Her interest in the ocean and the sailing life came from her many excursions along the New England coast and a trip to Europe in 1840. She collected her poems about sailors and the ocean in a volume entitled <em>The Sea and the Sailor<\/em> (1845). Other editions were published as <em>Poems for the Sea<\/em> and <em>Poetry for Seamen<\/em>. Meant to be a &#8220;companion to the voyager,&#8221; her poems are reminders of the blessings of home; many of the poems depict the sad farewells and the blissful reunions so common to the seafaring life. Sigourney&#8217;s poetry also has a strong evangelical theme: it contains many prayers for the safety of sailors and reminds readers that the wonders of the sea are the work of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><em>Poems for the Sea&nbsp;<\/em>(1850)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Poems_for_the_Sea\/bb44AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0\">Google Book Search<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/poemsforsea00sigoiala\">Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><em>Poetry for Seamen&nbsp;<\/em>(1845)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Poetry_for_Seamen\/TgJMAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0\">Google Book Search<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/poemsforseamen00sigo\">Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>keywords: white, female, poetry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Woods Weierman&nbsp;(2000) SIGOURNEY, LYDIA [HOWARD HUNTLEY] (1791-1865). Lydia Sigourney, the &#8220;sweet singer of Hartford,&#8221; was one of the most famous literary women in nineteenth-century America. Her interest in the ocean and the sailing life came from her many <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/s\/sigourney-lydia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&amp;<\/span> text links<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6595,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/6595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}