She wrote one of the earliest known essays on feminism -- published a year before Mary Wollstonecraft's famous book on women's rights. She also wrote about politics, religious, and moral subjects, and her letters are a charming introduction to what life was like just before and soon after the United States became a nation. Judith Sargent Murray is a woman of history who deserves to be known more than she is.
- Judith Sargent Murray - a profile
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