The Gleaner, Vol. I

Judith Sargent Murray — essayist, poet, playwright, wife of John Murray, and author of the Universalist catechism of 1782 — collected her celebrated 'Gleaner' essays in three volumes sold by subscription, with George Washington and John Adams heading the list. Writing under a male persona, she ranges over education, manners, politics, religion, and the capacities of women, extending the argument of her famous 'On the Equality of the Sexes.' One of the first self-published essay collections by an American woman, from the first family of American Universalism.

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