Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mercy Otis Warren | Though MOW
's strongest friendships were probably with men (John Adams
, Thomas Jefferson
, and others), some friendships with women were very important to her, notably that with Abigail Adams
. In her... |
politics | Mercy Otis Warren | 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... |
Publishing | Mercy Otis Warren | She presumably wrote The Ladies of Castile this year; The Sack of Rome followed in 1787. She sent the latter to John Adams
in London, hoping to have it produced there. He advised her... |
Literary responses | Mercy Otis Warren | When John Adams
read this volume he said that no female British poet was MOW
's equal. Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press. 162-3 |
Textual Production | Mercy Otis Warren | Like so many of her contemporaries, MOW
was an energetic and compelling letter-writer. She corresponded with an unidentified Dr Betsey on the topic of women's education. Her many letters to Abigail Adams
include one of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mercy Otis Warren | She was working on it by Christmas 1787, when John Adams
advised her to persevere. Grief at the death of her son Winslow
(who was killed in a military skirmish in the early 1790s) stopped... |
Literary responses | Mercy Otis Warren | John Adams
quarrelled with MOW
over her History, developing his differences with her in a correspondence which began in July 1807. Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press. 214ff |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
Textual Production | Ezra Pound | EP
published Cantos LII-LXXI; these include the Chinese Cantos celebrating Confucius
and the Adams Cantos praising the early American president, John Adams
. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxiv, 7 |
Dedications | Judith Sargent Murray | The set was dedicated to John Adams
, and subscribers included the dedicatee, many of the author's relations, Sarah Wentworth Morton
and her husband
, Susanna Haswell Rowson
, and George
and Martha Washington
.... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Wentworth Morton | A much more painful scandal brewed when Perez Morton
embarked on an adulterous affair with his wife's sister Fanny
, when she came to stay with the family in about 1786. Fanny bore his baby... |
Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | With her husband CM
lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan
after she had become a writer. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 14 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Macaulay | Her publisher, Edward Dilly
, told John Adams
that her political sympathies impelled her, despite serious ill health, to contribute this to the American cause. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 202 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Abigail Adams | Abigail Smith
married lawyer John Adams
, who was later to become Vice-President, then second President, of the newly-constituted United States. Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown. 17, 113, 141-3 |