Women Writers in English 1350-1850
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Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray
by Judith Sargent Murray and Sharon M. Harris
Published 1 January 1995
BLIncludes selections from The Gleaner, her major work, and other publications
As a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Judith Sargent Murray candidly and often humorously asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late eighteenth-century America. As a committed feminist, she urged American women to enter a `new era in female history', yet published her own writings under a man's name in the hopes of more widely disseminating her ideas.
As a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Judith Sargent Murray candidly and often humorously asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late eighteenth-century America. As a committed feminist, she urged American women to enter a `new era in female history', yet published her own writings under a man's name in the hopes of more widely disseminating her ideas.