Lydia Huntley Sigourney — a remark

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“If there is any kitchen in Parnassus, my Muse has surely officiated there as a woman of all work, and an aproned waiter.”

A wry, self-deprecating summary of a long working life spent turning domestic duty into verse · Autobiography, Letters of Life

About Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

1 September 1791–10 June 1865

Lydia Huntley Sigourney, born Lydia Howard Huntley on 1 September 1791 in Norwich, Connecticut, became one of the most widely read, industrious, and culturally influential American writers of the nineteenth century. During the height of her career, her poems were printed in newspapers and magazines, memorized by…

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