The Gleaner: A Miscellaneous Production, volume 1.

Constantia [Judith Sargent Murray]

The Gleaner: A Miscellaneous Production, volume 1.

Boston:

I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews

1798

Along with Martha Washington, John Adams, Henry Knox, and John Hancock, George Washington subscribed to early American feminist Judith Sargent Murray’s The Gleaner, which covered a broad range of topics relating to the new republic. Murray shared many of Washington’s democratic ideals and admired “the retiring Chief” greatly. That Washington kept this book, which bears his ownership inscription on the title page, in his library evidences that he admired her, too.

George Washington. Term: 1789-1797, no political party

From the Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane