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The feminist Sargent Sargent House Museum, Gloucester
That's too bad. With its early American furnishings, it looks the way it might have back in 1790, when the now-obscure writer and equal rights advocate lived here with her husband, Rev. John Murray, a founder of Universalism in America. It's a revelation to learn about Murray, who was enmeshed in intellectual discourse about the role of women in post-Revolutionary War America. She's also believed to be the first American-born woman to have had plays produced on a Boston stage - both panned by critics, however. John Singer's roots are in Gloucester and his presence is here, too. He donated the French wallpaper in the dining room to help his cousins restore the home. Judith's bedroom houses a small display of his work, including pencil sketchings he drew when he was 4. Sargent's oil portraits of his parents are also here, along with two watercolors, bronze sculptures, and a traveling painter's palette.
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