SYLVESTER JUDD BIOGRAPHY

SYLVESTER JUDD BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

JUDD, SYLVESTER (1813-1853). —Novelist, born at Westhampton, Mass., studied for the ministry at Yale, and became a Unitarian pastor. He pub. Philo , a religious poem, followed by Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal (1845), Richard Edney, A Rus-Urban Tale (1850). He also produced some theological works. His work is very unequal, but often, as in Margaret , contains fine and true descriptive passages both of nature and character.