James Warren

Mercy Otis married James Warren , a gentleman farmer who had been at Harvard with her brother James, and who, in due course, became a patriot and a politician.

MOW 's husband, James Warren , died; three of their sons were already dead.

MOW was a strong US nationalist before the War of Independence. Later she became, like her husband, an anti-Federalist: one of those who were not happy with the Constitution as drafted and sought amendments to...

MOW was probably writing poems as early as she was writing drama. Her collected volume of Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, 1790, shows that she was composing poetry well before the Revolution. She dates a...