Title: Mercy Otis Warren : selected letters /
Authors: Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814.; Richards, Jeffrey H.; Harris, Sharon M.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Warren, Mercy Otis, Correspondence.; Warren, Mercy Otis, Family.; Authors, American Correspondence.; Women authors, American Correspondence.; Historians United States Correspondence; Women historians United States Correspondence.; United States History Women.; United States History Historiography.; United States History Sources.
Abstract: "This volume gathers more than one hundred letters - most of them previously unpublished - written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814). Warren, whose works include a three-volume history of the American Revolution as well as plays and poems, was a major literary figure of her era and one of the most important American women writers of the eighteenth century. Her correspondents included Martha and George Washington, Abigail and John Adams, and Catharine Macaulay." "Until now, Warren's letters have been published sporadically, in small numbers, and mainly to help complete the collected correspondence of some of the famous men to whom she wrote. This volume addresses that imbalance by focusing on Warren's letters to her family members and other women. As they flesh out our view of Warren and correct some misconceptions about her, the letters offer a wealth of insights into eighteenth-century American culture, including social customs, women's concerns, political and economic conditions, medical issues, and attitudes on child rearing." "Letters Warren sent to other women who had lost family members (Warren herself lost three children) reveal her sympathies; letters to a favorite son, Winslow, show her sharing her ambitions with a child who resisted her advice. What readers of other Warren letters may have only sensed about her is now revealed more fully: she was a woman of considerable intellect, religious faith, compassion, literary intelligence, and acute sensitivity to the historical moment of even everyday events in the new American republic."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Acknowledgments 000 -- Introduction 000 -- Editorial Note 000 -- Letters -- 1. To James Otis Jr., [c. September 10, 1769] 3 -- 2. To James Warren, April 22, 1772 000 -- 3. To James Warren Jr., [September? 1772] 000 -- 4. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, February 1773 000 -- 5. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, April 1773 000 -- 6. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, June 9, 1773 000 -- 7. To James Warren Jr., [c. July] 1773 000 -- 8. To Sarah Walter Hesilrige, [c. December 1773 or March 1774] 000 -- 9. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, January 31, 1774 000 -- 10. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, 1774 000 -- 11. To Hannah Quincy Lincoln, June 12, 1774 000 -- 12. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, August 1774 000 -- 13. To Hannah Quincy Lincoln, September 3, 1774 000 -- 14. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, December 29, 1774 000 -- 15. To Abigail Smith Adams, December 29, 1774 000 --^