Judith Sargent Murray Society

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Web Name: Judith Sargent Murray Society

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Welcome! You are about to "meet" an extraordinary woman who changed American history. The Judith Sargent Murray Society, founded in 1996 by Bonnie Hurd Smith, is dedicated tohonoring the life and legacy of the eighteenth-century essayist, poet, andplaywright who was among America's earliest champions of female equality, education,economic independence, and political engagement. Bonnie introduces Judith on YouTube!Judith Sargent Murray was the: First to claim female equality in the public prints (1790) First woman in America to self-publish a book, (The Gleaner, 1798) First American to have a play produced in Boston (1795) Most important female essayist of the New American Republic, according to leading historians Earliest known American Universalist author Co-founder of a female academy The only eighteenth century woman known to have kept letter books in a consistent mannerJoin the Judith Sargent Murray mailing list by "liking" her on Facebook! Bonnie's entry on Judith is now part of Oxford University's online Bibliography of American Literature!"Your book has arrived. Bravo! Bravo! What a monumental, worthy, welcome piece of work. You did it and it looks great. And what long-range value it will have - there's no way to measure how far and lasting its reach will be, and all because you did it. Warmest congratulations and fond regards." David McCullough, Pulitzer prize-winning author, upon receiving Bonnie Hurd Smith's book The Letters I Left Behind No one, in my view, has done more than BonnieHurd Smith, through the ongoing publication and assessment of therecently discovered letters of Judith Sargent Murray of Gloucester,Massachusetts, to establish the position of this remarkable andcourageous woman as one of our pioneer female intellectuals and patriotsduring the Revolutionary period. Joseph E. Garland, Gloucester historian"The idea of the incapability of women is ... totallyinadmissible ... To argue against facts, is indeed contendingwith both wind and tide; and, borne down by accumulatingexamples, conviction of the utility of the present planswill pervade the public mind, and not a dissenting voicewill be heard." Judith Sargent Murray as her male persona,"The Gleaner"

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Honoring the life and legacy of the eighteenth-century essayist, poet, playwright,Universalist and women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray of Gloucester and Boston, Massachusetts

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