For herself, the future JSM
read science, philosophy, history, and politics as well as romances.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books.
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At sixteen she wrote in her copy of Dodsley
's Oeconomy of Human Life, 1750: The best book...
Anthologization
Judith Cowper Madan
From this periodical (presumably) the poem was picked up in 1755 for the fourth volume of Dodsley
's Collection of Poetry, two months before it re-appeared in Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Anthologization
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM
(with Elizabeth Carter
) was one of only two women included in Robert Dodsley
's canon-making Collection of Poems, published in March 1748.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon.