Margaret Judson
Faculty, English
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Margaret Judson
Faculty, English
Faculty, English
Description
Margaret Judson was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1880 to Edward and Antoinette (Barstow) Judson. Her father was the pastor of Memorial Baptist Church in New York City and a professor at Colgate Theological Seminary. Margaret attended Vassar College, graduating with an A.B. in English in 1903.
After graduation, Judson moved to Boston, taking a position as an instructor in English at Simmons. She taught at the College for less than two years, returning to Vassar in 1905 to teach English there. Judson likely remained at Vassar for the rest of her career, taking intermittent leaves to pursue graduate study at Yale between 1907 and 1909 and again from 1912 to 1914. In 1913, she accepted a joint position as Dean of Women and Professor of English at Shepardson College, the women’s college of Denison University in Ohio. She returned to Vassar in 1916, however, and was promoted to Associate Professor of English.
In addition to her teaching work, Judson was also a published poet and author. Her English textbook Composition, Rhetoric, Literature, co-authored with Dr. Martha Hale Shackford of Wellesley College, was published in 1917. She also penned a stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, but it was never published. Though little is known about Judson’s social or political activities, she was an active suffragist, holding membership in both the Dutchess County (New York) Equal Suffrage League and the Equal Franchise League of New Haven, Connecticut.
Judson died in Cazenovia, New York, in July of 1963.
After graduation, Judson moved to Boston, taking a position as an instructor in English at Simmons. She taught at the College for less than two years, returning to Vassar in 1905 to teach English there. Judson likely remained at Vassar for the rest of her career, taking intermittent leaves to pursue graduate study at Yale between 1907 and 1909 and again from 1912 to 1914. In 1913, she accepted a joint position as Dean of Women and Professor of English at Shepardson College, the women’s college of Denison University in Ohio. She returned to Vassar in 1916, however, and was promoted to Associate Professor of English.
In addition to her teaching work, Judson was also a published poet and author. Her English textbook Composition, Rhetoric, Literature, co-authored with Dr. Martha Hale Shackford of Wellesley College, was published in 1917. She also penned a stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, but it was never published. Though little is known about Judson’s social or political activities, she was an active suffragist, holding membership in both the Dutchess County (New York) Equal Suffrage League and the Equal Franchise League of New Haven, Connecticut.
Judson died in Cazenovia, New York, in July of 1963.
Citation
“Margaret Judson
Faculty, English,” Suffrage at Simmons, accessed April 19, 2024, https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/items/show/88.
Faculty, English,” Suffrage at Simmons, accessed April 19, 2024, https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/items/show/88.