PAL: Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide

Chapter 2: Early American Literature: 1700-1800 - Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)

Outside Link: | Works by JSM |

Page Links: | Primary Works | Selected Bibliography | MLA Style Citation of this Web Page |

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The Story of Margaretta (novel) included in "The Gleaner," Massachusetts Magazine, 1792-94; "The Repository," Massachusetts Magazine, 1792-94; The Medium, or Virtue Triumphant, 1795 (play); The Traveller Returned, 1796 (play); "Desultory thoughts upon the Utility of encouraging A degree of Self-Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms," Gentleman and Lady's Town and Country Magazine, October 22, 1784; "On the Domestic Education of Children," Massachusetts Magazine, May 1790; "On the Equality of Sexes," Massachusetts Magazine, April/May, 1790.
Pseudonyms: Mr. Vigillius, Constantia

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Amberg, Julie S. "Political and Sentimental Discourse in 1790s America: Judith Sargent Murray's 'The Gleaner', Hannah Webster Foster's 'The Coquette', and Susanna Haswell Rowson's 'Reuben and Rachel; or, Tales of Old Times'." DAI 57.2 (Aug 1996): DA9620862.

Bontatibus, Donna R. "The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation: A Call for Socio-Political Reform." DAI 56.9 (Mar 1996): DA9601835.

Cibbarelli, William R. "Libraries of the Mind: A Study of the Reading Histories of Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams and Judith Sargent Murray (1728-1820)." DAI 61.12 (Jun 2001): DA3000435.

Harris, Sharon. "Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)." Legacy 11.2 (1994): 152-59.

Harris, Sharon M. ed. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray. NY: Oxford UP, 1995.

Jacoba, Madelon. "The Early Novella as Political Message: The Margaretta Story by Judith Sargent Murray." Studies in the Humanities 18.2 (Dec 1991): 146-64.

Kritzer, Amelia H. "Playing with Republican Motherhood: Self-Representation in Plays by Susanna Haswell Rowson and Judith Sargent Murray." Early American Literature 31.2 (1996): 150-66.

Richards, Jeffrey H. "How to Write an American Play: Murray's Traveller Returned and Its Source." Early American Literature 33.3 (1998): 277-90.

Schofield, Mary A. "The Happy Revolution: Colonial Women and the Eighteenth-Century Theater." Modern American Drama: The Female Canon. Ed. June Schlueter. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990. 29-37.

Schofield, Mary A. "'Quitting the Loom and Distaff': Eighteenth-Century American Women Dramatists." Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820. Eds. Mary A. Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. Athens: Ohio UP, 1991. 260-73.

Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief Biography with Documents. Boston: Bedford, 1998.

Wilcox, Kristin. "The Scribblings of a Plain Man and the Temerity of a Woman: Gender and Genre in Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner." Early American Literature 30.2 (1995): 121-44.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page:

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 2: Early American Literature: 1700-1800 - Judith Sargent Murray." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/murray.html (provide page date or date of your login).