Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her widow is President of a club of widows which had featured in the recent number 561, by Addison
. Montagu's heroine, sold into marriage at an early age, has resolved to exploit as the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | In her usual formal style, which she does not adapt to the more usual conventions of epistolarity, she says it would be useless for her to give Winthrop the current domestic, and commercial intelligence, Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 137 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Lady Mary claimed that at every stage of her life she picked a few intimate friends and cared little for the opinions of anyone else. She always retained the highest opinion of her father's and... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | A son, John, born early in 1728 lived only a month. Then came Spencer, born just over a year later, who rose in the Church to become a bishop, and lived until 1813; Penelope, born... |
Education | Ann Fisher | It is not known where or how AF
acquired an education, but she certainly did so, to a far higher level than was normal for people of her class, regardless of their gender. She had... |
Education | Anne Grant | Of her childhood, AG
wrote that she developed early powers of imagination and memory, but received little attention: no one fondled or caressed me . . . I did not till the sixth year of... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 124 |
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