Judith Sargent Murray, essayist and poet, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the first child of Winthrop and Judith Saunders Sargent. The Sargents were prosperous, public-spirited merchants who we...
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An American poet, essayist, and playwright, Judith Sargent Murray was surpassed in her day only by British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft in her willingness to examine and probe the limits that her soci...
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During the pre-revolutionary period, more and more men worked outside the home in workshops, factories or offices. Many women stayed at home and performed domestic labor. The emerging values of ninete...
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Judith Sargent Murray
