Warren, Mercy Otis
(b. September 5, 1728; d. October 19, 1814) Dramatist, Historian, and Poet.
Mercy Otis Warren was the first American woman to publish poems, plays, and nonfiction about politics a...
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Mercy Otis Warren
Born September 25, 1728Barnstable, MassachusettsDied October 13, 1814Plymouth, Massachusetts
Playwright, historian
"I look with rapture at the distant dawn, And view the g...
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Warren, Mercy Otis
Born September 25, 1728 (Barnstable, Massachusetts)
Died October 19, 1814 (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Historian, poet
Mercy Otis Warren was an American poet and a historian of the nat...
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The American writer Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), the first significant woman historian, wrote an eyewitness account of the American Revolution.Mercy Otis was born at West Barnstable, Mass., on Sept....
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Mercy Otis Warren is perhaps most widely recognized as the author of several Revolutionary War-era dramatic satires which castigated Thomas Hutchinson and his Massachusetts Loyalist associates, but sh...
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As a writer of poetry, satiric plays, tragic dramas, letters to public and private figures, and a major history of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren stood out among Americans of her time as v...
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