Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren
Subtitle: the revolutionary Atlantic and the politics of gender
By: Kate Davies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791; Warren, Mercy (Otis) 1728-1814; Historiography -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 18th century; Women -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life; Historians -- United States -- Biography; Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Historiography
Description: "Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were radical friends in a revolutionary age. They produced definitive histories of the English Civil War and the American Revolution, attacked the British government and the United States federal constitution, and instigated a debate on women's rights which inspired Mary Wollstonecraft, Judith Sargent Murray, and other feminists. Drawing on new research (including recently discovered correspondence) this is the first book to consider Macaulay and Warren in the context of the revolutionary Atlantic. In a series of detailed interdisciplinary studies. Davies suggests the centrality of both women to transatlantic political cultures between the middle of the eighteenth century and the turn of the nineteenth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Hollis, and the London opposition; title: Out Cornelia-izing Cornelia : portraits, profession, and the gendered character of learning; title: Belle sauvage : Catharine Macaulay and the American war in Britain; title: Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary letters; title: Free and easy : Boston's fashionable dilemma; title: Mercy Otis Warren's independence.