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See also:SIGOURNEY, See also:LYDIA HUNTLEY (1791-1865) , See also:American author, was See also:born in See also:Norwich, See also:Connecticut, on the 1st of See also:September 1791. She was educated in Norwich and See also:Hartford. After conducting a private school for See also:young ladies in Norwich, she conducted a similar school in Hartford from 1814 until 1819, when she was married to See also:Charles Sigourney, a Hartford See also:merchant. She contributed more than two thousand articles to many (nearly 300) See also:periodicals, and wrote more than fifty books. She died in Hartford, on the loth of See also:June 1865. Her books include Moral Pieces in See also:Prose and See also:Verse (1815); Traits of the See also:Aborigines of See also:America (1822), a poem; A See also:Sketch of Connecticut See also:Forty Years Since (1824); Poems (1827); Letters to Young Ladies (1833), one of her best-known books; Sketches (1834); See also:Poetry for See also:Children (1834); See also:Zinzendorf, and Other Poems (1835); See also:Olive Buds (1836); Letters to Mothers (1838), republished in See also:London; Pocahontas, and Other Poems (1841); Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands (1842), descriptive of her trip to See also:Europe in 184o; Scenes in My Native See also:Land (1844); Letters to My Pupils (1851); Olive Leaves (1851); The Faded See also:Hope (1852), in memory of her only son, who died when he was nineteen years old; Past See also:Meridian (1854); The Daily Counsellor (1858), poems; Gleanings (186o), selections from her verse; The See also:Man of Uz, and Other Poems (1862); and Letters of See also:Life (1866), giving an See also:account of her career. She was one of the most popular writers of her See also:day, both in America and in See also:England, and was called " the American See also:Hemans." Her writings were characterized by fluency, See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and quiet reflection on nature, domestic and religious life, and philanthropic questions; but they were too often sentimental, didactic and See also:commonplace to have much See also:literary value. Some of her See also:blank verse and pictures of nature suggest See also:Bryant. Among her most successful poems are " See also:Niagara " and " See also:Indian Names." Throughout her life she took an active See also:interest in philanthropic and educational See also:work.
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