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This volume gathers more than one hundred letters-most of them previously unpublished-written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814).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.
- Sales Rank: #1918930 in Books
- Brand: Brand: University of Georgia Press
- Published on: 2009-02-15
- Released on: 2009-02-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.10" w x 6.12" l, 1.32 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Warren's letters offer a rich source of information about many larger issues of the time, including the status of women, the nature and extent of kinship ties, and changing political conditions and economic circumstances in revolutionary Massachusetts. This edition represents a valuable resource not just for those who study Mercy Otis Warren but for all students of revolutionary America.
(Rosemarie Zagarri author of Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic)This book will be attractive to scholars and non-scholars alike, as it allows readers a glimpse of the hopes, fears, beliefs, and the lived life of an extraordinary eighteenth-century American woman. It gives readers a lens through which they can gain an appreciation of the way that so many women of Warren's status survived the Revolutionary age. These are private letters, but they have a public face. Always politically engaged, Warren seldom failed to link her own concerns to the issues that faced the new nation.
(Sheila L. Skemp author of First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence)One of the collection's charms is the wide span of Warren's recipients, ranging from family members, both well-known (James Otis Jr., James Warren) and not (her son Winslow), to obscure female friends (Sarah Hesilrige, Hannah Lincoln) and famous personalities such as Abigail and John Adams, Catharine Macaulay, and George Washington. The result is a useful window on many aspects of the 18th-century US.
(Choice) About the Author
Jeffrey H. Richards is a professor of English at Old Dominion University and author of a literary biography of Mercy Otis Warren among other books. Sharon M. Harris is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. The author or editor of numerous books, she is founder of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
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"Goddess of The North Wind"
By Strawgold
If Boreas (pg 24) was the God of the North Wind, then Mercy Otis surely was it's Goddess, as nothing could be more symbolic of the Revolution than a cold wind blowing down across the new America from the outerlands; perhaps just as symbolic were her own words referencing the unrest, which I found enchanting:
**"As we often see the most serene sky after the storms of the natural world have subsided, we may yet hope for at least a temporary calm in the political hemisphere - if a few baleful meteors which presently infect it were once again reduced to their original insignificancy."** page 25
Mercy Otis was, like Abigail Adams, a lady educated beyond the scope of most women of the age, blessed of life station, endowed with a high level of intelligence and sophistication, and armed with the unusual confidence to speak her mind even if the environment of peer disapproval suggested to her that she might remain silent and let the "other sex" handle matters of politics. There are several instances of this phenomenon within this selection of personal correspondences. She also gave her husband, James Warren credit where it was due when speaking thus, noting that he, unlike some others, "encouraged" her participation in political authorship. Where Abigail Adams had, in the beginning, only the husband in politics, Mercy Otis had one additional asset in her "current events" arsenal: a brother, Attorney James Otis Jr., a firebrand of energy supported by a working knowledge of the Law, endowed with original ideas and courage of convictions that helped shape the very foundation of the Revolution in it's fledgling stages through (but not limited to) his very public renouncing of the infamous "writs of assistance" - 'broad power' based search and seizure warrants that had no time limits or subject matter ascribed them but were solely intended as instruments of control.
Mercy was a prolific, intriguing writer of elegant prose, carefully chosen - which adds much interest to her work. I began with her collection of correspondence, chiefly because, while reading the works of the Revolutionists, I found their letters and/or diaries to be the most interesting as they were so open and honest. In the letters are to be found their deepest thoughts, their beliefs, and their truest characters swept free of most of the need for a proper amount of charade, although it is also true that they cautiously suspected they may become inspirations of posterity as well. Many things never written in the historical accountings about the Revolution or it's founding citizens are felt deeply by the individual reader on their own personal level when these remarkable letters are delved into. These driven and selfless, tough-fibred people may have passed into History, but they will never die - their words live beyond what is yet "below the stars.."(pg 24)and one single strand is common to all of them - the passion born of knowledge that they did it for the generations that would surely follow them in freedom if they prevailed in the Quest.
With regards to the "almost-blood" feud between the Otis' and the Thomas Hutchinson family, the British Loyalist whom they directly opposed, not much good can be said about Hutchinson from a patriot's point of view, but there is this: when speaking of the loss of his wife, Hutchinson remarked " in losing her, I lost half my soul". Any guy who can put together a sentimental statement like that and back it up by never remarrying, can't be all bad.......
Other "Books of Letters" highly recommended for the American History enthusiast as all of them are gemstones:
** "My Dearest Friend" by John and Abigail Adams
** "The Adams-Jefferson Letters" by John, Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson
** "George Washington - Writings" - this is in a diary/letter format
** "Defiance of the Patriots - the Boston Tea Party" by Benjamin L. Carp
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a woman's letters to relatives and friends during the formation of the United States
By Henry Berry
Letters of Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) have been published elsewhere. However, these were limited mostly to her letters to important figures in American history such as Martha Washington and Abigail Adams. A few of these letters are published here. But the aim of letters of this volume is to make available Warren's equally informative letters to others during the momentous era including the Revolutionary War.
The editors "focus on two groups of correspondents, women and family members." There are letters to over 19 women, plus ten letters to family members, most of these to her second son. The total of 106 letters reflect the relationships, thoughts, and values of a well-to-do woman in the Boston area during this formative period of the United States. The editors' introduction gives a biographical background of Warren and assesses her as a prime example of the place of the common practice of letter-writing in her time.
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