Write On, Mercy!

Write On, Mercy!
Author: Gretchen Woelfle
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1590788222

Provides a biography of Mercy Otis Warren, an unsung heroine of the American Revolution, who wrote patriotic plays and poems, including a history of the Revolution.

Mercy Otis Warren

Mercy Otis Warren
Author: Mercy Otis Warren
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-01-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820336734

This volume gathers more than one hundred letters-most of them previously unpublished-written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814). Warren, whose works include a three-volume history of the American Revolution as well as plays and poems, was a major literary figure of her era and one of the most important American women writers of the eighteenth century. Her correspondents included Martha and George Washington, Abigail and John Adams, and Catharine Macaulay. Until now, Warren's letters have been published sporadically, in small numbers, and mainly to help complete the collected correspondence of some of the famous men to whom she wrote. This volume addresses that imbalance by focusing on Warren's letters to her family members and other women. As they flesh out our view of Warren and correct some misconceptions about her, the letters offer a wealth of insights into eighteenth-century American culture, including social customs, women's concerns, political and economic conditions, medical issues, and attitudes on child rearing. Letters Warren sent to other women who had lost family members (Warren herself lost three children) reveal her sympathies; letters to a favorite son, Winslow, show her sharing her ambitions with a child who resisted her advice. What readers of other Warren letters may have only sensed about her is now revealed more fully: she was a woman of considerable intellect, religious faith, compassion, literary intelligence, and acute sensitivity to the historical moment of even everyday events in the new American republic.

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren
Author: Kate Davies
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2005-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191535834

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were radical friends in a revolutionary age. They produced definitive histories of the English Civil War and the American Revolution, attacked the British government and the United States federal constitution, and instigated a debate on women's rights which inspired Mary Wollstonecraft, Judith Sargent Murray, and other feminists. Drawing on new research (including recently discovered correspondence) this is the first book to consider Macaulay and Warren in the context of the revolutionary Atlantic. In a series of detailed interdisciplinary studies, Davies suggests the centrality of both women to transatlantic political cultures between the middle of the eighteenth century and the turn of the nineteenth. The experience of Anglo-American conflict formed Macaulay and Warren's friendship and radically changed their writing lives. In showing how it did so, Davies also explains how the revolutionary Atlantic shaped modern ideas of gender difference. Anglo-American separation had a politics of gender which defined Warren and Macaulay's awareness of themselves as women and of which their writing also offered important critiques. Davies's book reveals the political significance of Mercy Otis Warren and Catharine Macaulay to an era when the truths of patriotism, nationhood and empire were never wholly self-evident but were hotly contested.

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
Author: Mercy Otis Warren
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2016-04-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781354838389

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A Woman's Dilemma

A Woman's Dilemma
Author: Rosemarie Zagarri
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118981138

The second edition of A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution updates Rosemarie Zagarri's biography of one of the most accomplished women of the Revolutionary era. The work places Warren into the social and political context in which she lived and examines the impact of Warren's writings on Revolutionary politics and the status of women in early America. Presents readers with an engaging and accessible historical biography of an accomplished literary and political figure of the Revolutionary era Provides an incisive narrative of the social and intellectual forces that contributed to the coming of the American Revolution Features a variety of updates, including an in-depth Bibliographical Essay, multiple illustrations, a timeline of Warren's life, and chapter-end study questions Includes expanded coverage of women during the Revolutionary Era and the Early American Republic

The Muse of the Revolution

The Muse of the Revolution
Author: Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807055175

Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.

The Adulateur

The Adulateur
Author: Mercy Otis Warren
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2009-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781409965633

Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) was an American writer and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience of the American Revolution." She was America's first female playwright, having written anti-British and anti-Loyalist propaganda plays from 1772 to 1775, and was the first woman to create a Jeffersonian interpretation of the Revolution, entitled History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (1805). Warren formed a strong circle of friends with whom she regularly corresponded, including Abigail Adams, Martha Washington and Hannah Winthrop. Through their correspondence they increased the awareness of women's issues. Since Warren knew most of the leaders of the Revolution personally, she was continually at or near the center of events from 1765 to 1789. She combined her vantage point with a talent for writing to become both a poet and a historian of the Revolutionary era. All Mercy Otis Warren's work was published anonymously until 1790. She wrote several plays, including the satiric The Adulateur: A Tragedy, as it is Now Acted in Upper Servia (1772).

The Group

The Group
Author: Mercy Warren
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732645568

Reproduction of the original: The Group by Mercy Warren

The Blockheads

The Blockheads
Author: Mercy Otis Warren
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 25
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1613109571