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.
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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...