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Mercy Otis Warren
1728–1814
A sharp, fearless voice of the American Revolution, she turned poetry, satire, and history into tools of political debate. Her writing offers a rare view of the founding era from someone who knew many of its key figures personally.
2 Audiobooks
Observations on the new constitution, and on the Federal and State conventions, by a Columbian patriot
by Mercy Otis Warren
The Group: A Farce
by Mercy Otis Warren
About the author
Born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in 1728, Mercy Otis Warren became one of the most important women writers of early America. Although women were rarely encouraged to take part in public political life, she educated herself widely and built a reputation as a poet, playwright, and political commentator.
During the years leading up to and through the American Revolution, she wrote satirical plays and poems that criticized British authority and supported the Patriot cause. She moved in the same circles as leading revolutionaries, including John and Abigail Adams, and her home life and correspondence placed her close to the major debates of the time.
Later, she became a historian of the era she had lived through. Her three-volume History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, published in 1805, helped secure her place as an important early American author and observer of the nation's founding.