Sargent-Murray Gilman-Hough Historical Society (Sargent House Museum)

The Sargent House Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, will clean and treat a candlewick bedspread created in 1812. The conserved bedspread will provide the centerpiece of a reinterpretation of the bedchamber of Judith Sargent Murray, a late eighteenth-century advocate for women’s equality and education. Central to the story of the house and its occupants, this bedchamber was the site of her writing desk where many of her progressive ideas were captured.