";s:4:"text";s:3373:" As poet, dramatist, satirist, and historian, her voice was one of the early calls in America for revolt against the British and their policies as implemented by Governor Thomas Hutchinson. Mercy Otis Warren (born September 25, 1728) was a rarity. Mercy Otis Warren. Playwright, historian. She is best known as the author of a three-volume work on the American Revolution. PUBLISH UNPUBLISH DISCARD. A well-educated woman from a wealthy family, Mercy was a political writer and propagandist during the American Revolution. Mercy Otis Warren, American poet, dramatist, and historian whose proximity to political leaders and critical national events gives particular value to her writing on the American Revolutionary period. “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. Mercy Otis Warren began writing poetry in about 1759, five years after her marriage, but it was not until 1772 and the pseudonymous publication of her satiric drama The Adulateur in the Massachusetts Spy that her work reached the public. AKA Mercy Otis. Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution — a time when women were encouraged and expected to keep silent on political matters. Birthplace: Barnstable, MA Location of death: Plymouth, MA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Buri. In this history, she documented from her perspective what had led up to the revolution, how it had progressed, and how it … History of the American Revolution. In 1805, Mercy Otis Warren published what had occupied her for some time: she titled the three-volumes the History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. The American Revolution and her particular place in Massachusetts society and politics, however, practically forced Warren into the limelight. Born September 25, 1728 Barnstable, Massachusetts Died October 13, 1814 Plymouth, Massachusetts. The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend. Mercy Otis Warren died in 1814, at age eighty-six, at her home in Plymouth. “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. Unable to save at this time. Birthplace: Barnstable, MA Location of death: Plymouth, MA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Buri. American writer, sister of James Otis, born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, and in 1754 married James Warren of Plymouth Massachusetts, a college friend of her brother. Mercy Otis Warren facts: The American writer Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), the first significant woman historian, wrote an eyewitness account of the American Revolution. John Adams and some of the other leaders of the American Revolution knew Mercy Otis Warren’s secret. His example surely helped inspire Mercy’s writings in later years. Mercy Otis Warren (1980).