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 memorized entire books, including The Shipwreck, The Lady of the Lake, Lalla-Rookh, The Bride of Abydos, and The Corsair.
She was a prolific author, chiefly for magazines and newspapers, her published poems filling more than a thousand common octavo pages.
In 1849, she edited the Lancaster Literary Gazette; she was also the chief writer for the Ladies' Garland, a periodical for women which flourished in the 1840s.