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...
Material Conditions of Writing
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...