Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books.
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Cultural formation | Judith Sargent Murray | The itinerant minister John Murray
(an English immigrant who had been preaching in the USA since 1770), arrived at Gloucester,Massachusetts (home town of Judith Sargent Stevens
), to spread the gospel of Universalism
. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 23 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Sargent Murray | The thirty-seven-year-old Judith Stevens
, after a year and a half as a widow, married the Rev. John Murray
, the man who had converted her to Universalism. Field, Vena Bernadette. Constantia: A Study of the Life and Works of Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820. University of Maine Press. 23 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Sargent Murray | John Murray
, husband of JSM
, died at Boston, six years after his disabling stroke. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 55 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | She wrote this book for the two foster-daughters she raised during her first marriage. Her mother urged her to send the manuscript to the Universalist minister Noah Parker
of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Parker urged her... |
Reception | Judith Sargent Murray | Once again the play was ascribed to John Murray
, and again he publicly denied his authorship. The audience was enthusiastic, but a bad review by Robert Treat Paine
made The Traveller Returned controversial. Field, Vena Bernadette. Constantia: A Study of the Life and Works of Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820. University of Maine Press. 38-40 Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 103 |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | This was the first American play staged in Boston, and it was handicapped by the fact that substitutes, at least one of them under-rehearsed, appeared in two of the female lead roles. Rumour ascribed its... |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The year after her husband's death, JSM
completed, edited, and published, as Records of the Life of the Rev. John Murray, the autobiography which he had left unfinished. It was her final literary work. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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