Lydia Jane Wheeler Peirson (1802–1862; sometimes spelled Pierson) was an American poet, nicknamed "the forest minstrel".[1]
"Like a great majority of women, she had too little knowledge of business to enable her to realize the pecuniary recompense that was due her labors. She has been, for a long time, a contributor to papers that have a wide circulation, yet has seldom received more than the paper and an occasional volume sent the editor for review, as compensation.— The proceeds of one volume of her poems, she donated to a theological seminary; for the other she received nothing. The publishers found rapid sale for the work, but soon after its issue were burnt out, and a great share of the edition destroyed. They maintained that they had received only enough to compensate them for their expense, and gave her nothing."[2]
- ^ Small, Judy Jo (1 May 2010). Positive As Sound: Emily Dickinson's Rhyme. University of Georgia Press. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-0-8203-3464-6.
- ^ M. B. Bateham & S. D. Harris, ed. (1855). THE OHIO CULTIVATOR: A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, AND THE PROMOTION OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRY: ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGLAVING OF FARM BUILDINGS, IMPLEMENTS, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, Erc. Vol. XI (Public domain ed.). pp. 46–.