She was an Anti-Federalist, and an outspoken critic of the Constitution. She was also the first woman to write a history of the American Revolution, which was published in Written by Randal Rust.
O Fortunate! For the author, this fight had enormous repercussions, with the moral tone of the British Empire hanging in the balance. Her own rancor seemed to startle her, and nagged by her Puritan upbringing, she fretted. If we look into human nature. The business of satyr is to expose vice and vicious men as such to this scorn and to enrobe Virtue in all the charms which fancy can paint.
So Mercy Otis Warren, through her biting pen, was exposing vice to ensure virtue. In these pre-war years, John Adams and Mercy Otis Warren developed a mutual admiration society of the first order, she praising his valiant forays in the political arena, and he trumpeting her literary works and urging her to write more.
She willingly complied. Mercy Otis Warren and John Adams experienced the war years from very different perspectives. He played first on a national stage in Philadelphia, where he helped steer Congress toward independence, and then on an international stage in Europe, where he represented American interests, both diplomatic and financial. She, meanwhile, stayed in Massachusetts, doing what she could to support her husband James in public duties that included president of the Provincial Congress, speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, general in the Massachusetts militia, and paymaster general for the Continental Army.
She continued to write, but only for private audiences. Reading her letters today, we see that the war took its toll on Mercy Otis Warren, dampening her dreams of a perfect, virtuous republic. Warren left the final verdict on the Washington presidency up to future historians. The two had a falling out due to what Adams perceived as Warren's slight of his influence on the events of the revolutionary era.
Warren died on October 19, at the age of eighty-seven in her home state of Massachusetts. King, Martha J. Accessed May 11, Zagarri, Rosemarie. Wheeling, Ill. Podcast Mount Vernon Everywhere!
Warren, History , When her History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution was finally published in , President Thomas Jefferson ordered advance copies for himself and for every member of his cabinet. Now a fierce anti-Federalist, Mercy used this opportunity to contrast the virtuous self-sacrifice of the revolutionaries with what she saw as a postwar lapse in revolutionary principles.
In her plays, Mercy Otis Warren placed women in the center of political turmoil. Through her characters, she suggested that a healthy republic required politically conscious women willing to make sacrifices for public good. And through her writings, Mercy proved such women could inspire their countrymen to action. I love how Mercy was determined to get women equal rights into the constitution, and I am VERY happy to have her as my person for my project!
It has been very fun researching about her, and she will always be an inspiration to me! And, thank you for providing this information for me!
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