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.
13
At sixteen she wrote in her copy of Dodsley
's Oeconomy of Human Life, 1750: The best book...
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.
517-18
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.
