Judith Murray [née Sargent]

(1751-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Murray, Judith Sargent, 1751-1820 LBT ID: JuMurra1820 VIAF ID: 60453216 LOC ID: n83041630	B/BAP: 1751-05-01 DIED: 1820-07-06
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American writer, the sister of Winthrop Sargent; she acquired fame as the author of “The Gleaner” published in the Massachusetts Magazine (1792-94). Her second husband with the Universalist preacher John Murray.
REFERENCES TO Judith Murray [née Sargent]: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 9