Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray

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.