1822

Sigourney, Lydia H. Traits of the Aborigines of America, A Poem. Cambridge, 1822. 74-79. The prolific Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford," was one of that "damned mob of scribbling women" responsible for the rise of feminized, sentimental fiction in the early nineteenth century that Hawthorne complained about. In this, the first of several writings about or mentions of Pocahontas, and one of her earliest works, Pocahontas is, memorably, like the maid who saved the infant Moses, who then overcame the Pharaoh.
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