Arabella W. Stuart

Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons (Dodo Press) Arabella W. Stuart

Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826) was one of the first female American foreign missionaries. She attended the Bradford Academy and during a revival there read Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education by Hannah More, which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'". Sarah Hall Boardman (1803-1845) born in Alstead, New Hampshire, spent 20 years of her life in Burma doing missionary work. She and her husband George Boardman sailed to Burma in 1824, just one week after their wedding. She was widowed in 1831. In 1834 she married Adoniram Judson. Emily Chubbuck (1817-1854) was an American poet who wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Forrester. In 1834 she became a teacher and joined a Baptist church. In 1840 she entered the Utica female seminary and wrote her first book, Charles Linn, in 1841.