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. This volume includes selections from The Gleaner, her major work, and other publications.
ISBN: | 9780195100389 |
Publication date: | 21st March 1996 |
Author: | Judith Sargent Murray |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 316 pages |
Series: | Women Writers in English 1350-1850 |
Genres: |
Literary studies: general Biographies & Autobiographies |