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Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814)

US historian and poet. In addition to publishing poetry and plays, she published historical works including Observations on the New Constitution (1788) and History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805). She corresponded at length with Abigail Adams, John Adams, and other leading political figures, and is arguably the USA's first major female intellectual. Warren was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts.



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95 Hardcover E208 Raphael provides a history of the work of seven forgotten founders of America, among the many Revolutionary Americans who contributed to the founding of the country: army private Joseph Plumb Martin; the wealthy merchant Robert Morris, who helped finance the nation; small-town blacksmith Timothy Bigelow, who helped engineer the first overthrow of British authority; conservative Henry Laurens; doctor Thomas Young; and political correspondent Mercy Otis Warren.
Joseph Plumb Martin, civilian Robert Morris, Southern aristocrat-turned-reluctant-rebel Henry Laurens, itinerant revolutionary Thomas Young and female political correspondent Mercy Otis Warren.
3) Similarly, columnist John Leo slammed the standards for asking students to learn about such allegedly trivial figures as Mercy Otis Warren ("a minor poet and playwright" included only "so the founders of the nation won't seem so distressingly male") and shoemaker and leader of the Stamp Act demonstrations, Ebenezer Macintosh, whom Leo derided as a "brawling street lout of the 1760s" who was mentioned merely because he was "anti-elitist.
 
 
 
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