JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, “Preface to the Reader,” The Gleaner, vol. 1, Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1798
JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, “Preface to the Reader,” The Gleaner, vol. 1, Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1798
Writing under a pseudonym, Murray discusses both her “passion” for and anxiety about pursuing literary fame. Eager to serve her readers by providing instruction and amusement, she regrets that “defects of almost every description” will “probably occur.”
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