Sylvester Judd

Sylvester Judd (July 23, 1813 – January 26, 1853), was an American novelist.

Biography

Sylvester Judd was born on July 23, 1813, [Nelson, Randy F. "The Almanac of American Letters". Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 44. ISBN 086576008X] in Westhampton, Massachusetts to Sylvester Judd and Apphia Hall. He studied at Hopkins Academy in Hadley, Massachusetts, graduated from Yale College in 1836, and from Harvard Divinity School in 1840. He was ordained a Unitarian minister on October 1, 1840, becoming pastor of a church in Augusta, Maine. On August 31, 1841, Sylvester married Jane E. Williams the daughter of Reuel Williams. They had three children.

Criticism

American critic and poet James Russell Lowell called Judd's novel "Margaret" "the most emphatically American book ever written". [Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism: A History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007: 198. ISBN 0-8090-3477-8]

Works

*1838: "A Young Man's Account of his Conversion from Calvinism"
*1845: "", a Transcendentalist novel (revised 1851)
*1850: "", a religious poem
*1850: ""
*1854: "The Church, in a Series of Discourses"
*"The White Hills" (a novel unpublished during his lifetime)He also produced a large number of sermons and religious addresses.

References

Further reading

*Eliot, Samuel A. "Heralds of a Liberal Faith." Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1910. (pp. 301-307) [http://books.google.com/books?id=qTNfOb2f494C&pg=PA301&dq=Sylvester+Judd&lr=&as_brr=1&ei=uNodSKPAHIecjgHQpdSGBg#PPA308,M1 googlebooks] Retrieved May 4, 2008
*Sylvester Judd (the present subject's father), "Thomas Judd and His Descendants", J. &. L. Metcalf, Northampton, 1856.
*Arethusa Hall, "Life and Character of Sylvester Judd", Boston, 1854.