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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender.
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January 1, 2008
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- Rust, Marion
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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender
KATE DAVIES
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
336 pp.
Kate Davies enters into a flourishing critical discourse with her investigation into the works, lives, and relationship of two prominent late eighteenth-century historians and republican theorists, Catherine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren. Recently, scholars such as Catherine Allgor and Susan Branson have investigated the particular ways in which early national women employed gender identity to attain forms of political influence unavailable to men. Like them, Davies argues that "in an era when ideas of ...
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Adulateur, The
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;
James D. Hart;
11 words
...Adulateur, The, satirical play by Mercy Otis Warren , published in 1773.
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Revolutionary historian; Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;
April 20, 2005 ;
Valerie A. Russo;
162 words
...Growing up in Barnstable on Cape Cod, Mercy Otis was not given any formal education, but she was allowed...Samuel Adams as they traveled between Boston and Cape Cod. Mercy Otis Warren's contributions to the revolutionary cause were her satirical...
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Women who shaped history with a pen.(THE HOME FORUM)
The Christian Science Monitor;
March 28, 2006 ;
787 words
......writer. A hundred years later, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) loved to to debate...of virtue and righteousness. Mercy Otis Warren The year is 1772 and a radical...few women were published. But Mercy Otis Warren risked popular ridicule and...
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PRESENT AT THE CREATION - The literary contributions of two figures - one...
The Boston Globe;
June 29, 2008 ;
David Waldstreicher; David Waldstreicher teaches history at Temple University; is the author of "Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin; Slavery; ; the American Revolution.";
787 words
......Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation By...the Revolution," we learn that Mercy Otis Warren got a terrific education thanks...brother, patriot firebrand James Otis. She married a friend of James...
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HONORING MERCY OTIS WARREN, AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN A NEW NATION
The Boston Globe;
August 18, 1987 ;
Robert L. Turner, Globe Staff;
601 words
......demonstrating that policy makers who ignore the voice of women do so at their peril. For the person to be honored Friday is Mercy Otis Warren, one of the most colorful and influential figures in the nation's first four decades. During the Revolutionary period...
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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and...
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers;
January 1, 2007 ;
Shaffer, Jason;
745 words
...Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender. By...intellectuals of the British Atlantic: Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren. Kate Davies's excellent new study of these two authors focuses...
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ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe;
February 11, 1990 ;
162 words
...Q. Who was Mercy Otis Warren? I am told she was an advocate of women's liberation in the early 18th century. D.A., Walpole A. A playwright and historian, Warren...
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Women of Independent Minds
The Washington Post;
July 16, 1995 ;
Sarah Booth Conroy;
787 words
......Press 391 pp. Paperback, $19.95 A WOMAN'S DILEMMA Mercy Otis Warren And the American Revolution By Rosemarie Zagarri...ladies," did so, but not in the way she wished. When Mercy Otis Warren's History of the American Revolution was published...
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Feminism
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;
James D. Hart;
351 words
......the Rights of Woman (1792), by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft. American women, including Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren, were just as early in agitating that the Constitution specifically state the rights of women. Later prominent leaders...
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'A day never to be forgotten by Americans'
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;
April 21, 2008 ;
699 words
...OUR OPINION Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) of Plymouth, one of the leading 18th century intellectuals, was a writer and poet and is acknowledged as America's...
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ADAMS' PORTRAIT GETS A DUSTING.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
June 1, 2001 ;
629 words
...Byline: Greg Moody John Adams By David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, 656 pages, $35. Grade: A In 1806, Mercy Otis Warren published her History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. In it, she accused John...
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Otis Warren gets go-ahead on purchase of Clarion Inn
Baltimore Afro-American;
June 24, 1995 ;
Tracey Gatewood;
428 words
...Tracey Gatewood Baltimore Afro-American 06-24-1995 Otis Warren gets go-ahead on purchase of Clarion Inn. One of the city's leading African-American businessmen, Otis Warren Jr., on Wednesday, received approval for the purchase of the trouble-plagued...
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Federal building jump-starts ailing neighborhood. (Baltimore, Maryland)
Building Design & Construction;
March 1, 1994 ;
787 words
......space in Baltimore, local developer Otis Warren Real Estate Services approached the...development rights for three parcels, Otis Warren set out to assemble a team to respond...Partnership (CCLP), is a joint venture of Otis Warren Real Estate Services and Baltimore-based...
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Warren, Mercy Otis
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;
James D. Hart;
122 words
...Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814), sister of James Otis, wife of James Warren (1726–1808), president of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts...
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