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COVER STORY

The feminist Sargent
Sargent House Museum, Gloucester

   
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Located at 49 Middle St. (there's also a Main Street entrance), the house is open Memorial Day through Columbus Day, Friday-Monday, noon to 4 p.m. Admission is $3; $2 for seniors. 978-281-2432. (Get directions).

The "Sargent House Museum" sign outside the handsome Georgian-style house in downtown Gloucester attracts passersby who connect it to John Singer Sargent, the artist who owns Boston this summer. When they learn that it was the home of his great grand-aunt, Judith Sargent Murray, they tend to pass it up.

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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