Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray

by Judith Sargent Murray

Book Overview

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 some of her own writings under a man's name in hopes of more widely disseminating her ideas. In addition to her literary endeavors Murray was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195100387
• ISBN13: 9780195100389
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"