194:(1822), extant drafts of a letter he wrote to Lydia in October 1827 suggest he had reached his boiling point. While careful not to accuse Lydia of sexual impropriety, Charles asserts the impropriety of female authorship when lauded above the duties of wife and mother. While writing might be a reasonable amateur pastime, he goes on to say, "I object to the excess, & the abuse of this talent, the consequent immoderate desire of constantly appearing before the publick, & the immoderate desire of notoriety … which amounts … to a mental disease."
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123:(July 21, 1778 – December 30, 1854) was an American businessman, banker, philanthropist, and founding trustee of Washington (later Trinity) College in Hartford, Connecticut. In addition to his myriad activities on behalf of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, Sigourney is notable for his marriage to American poet
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Sigourney was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1778 to Charles Sigourney, a Boston merchant with “distinguished early-American forbears” of French Huguenot stock. Little is known about his mother, but the Sigourney entry in the 1790 Census indicated that four women lived in the household.
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Sigourney married Lydia Huntley on June 16, 1819. Scholars have long noted the conflict between their social compatibility and Charles's insistence that female authorship was "unfeminine, inappropriate for a married woman and mother, likely to distract from the domestic supervision that
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was eventually approved by the state legislature in 1823, Sigourney was elected
Secretary of the Board of Trustees, a post he would hold until at least the late 1840s. In this capacity, Sigourney carried on correspondence with early American statesmen and benefactors such as
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Sigourney and his first wife, Jane Carter Sigourney had three children, Charles Henry, Elizabeth Carter, and Jane Carter before her death in 1818. Lydia Sigourney (née Huntley) knew the couple and wrote an elegy for the late Jane upon her death.
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helped sustain his own career, and liable to public controversy." Although initially supportive of her career, even providing scholarly notes to her
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Sigourney was also a key player in establishing an Episcopalian university in Connecticut in the early decades of the 19th c. When
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