Sylvester Judd
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Sylvester Judd (23 July 1813 - 26 January 1853), novelist, born at Westhampton, Massachusetts, studied at Hadley Academy, graduated from Yale College in 1836, and from Harvard Divinity School in 1840. He was ordained a Unitarian minister on 1 October 1840, becoming pastor of a church in Augusta, Maine. His work is very uneven, but often, as in Margaret, contains fine and true descriptive passages both of nature and character.
[edit] Works
- 1838: A Young Man's Account of his Conversion from Calvinism
- 1845: Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi, a Transcendentalist novel (revised 1851)
- 1850: Philo: An Evangeliad, a religious poem
- 1850: Richard Edney and the Governor's Family: A Rus-Urban Tale
- 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- The White Hills (a novel unpublished during his lifetime)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.
[edit] References
- 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.
