Mercy Otis Warren : selected letters / edited by Jeffrey H. Richards and Sharon M. Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814.

Contributor:

Harris, Sharon M.

Richards, Jeffrey H.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--18th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American.

Historians--United States--Correspondence.

Historians.

Women authors, American--18th century--Correspondence.

Women authors, American.

Women historians--United States--Correspondence.

Women historians.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Historiography.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women.

Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814--Correspondence.

Warren, Mercy Otis.

Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814--Family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume gathers more than one hundred letters-most of them previously unpublished-written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814).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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Editorial Note

Letters

1. To James Otis Jr., [c. September 10, 1769]

2. To James Warren, April 22, 1772

3. To James Warren Jr., [September? 1772]

4. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, February 1773

5. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, April 1773

6. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, June 9, 1773

7. To James Warren Jr., [c. July] 1773

8. To Sarah Walter Hesilrige, [c. December 1773 or March 1774]

9. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, January 31, 1774

10. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, 1774

11. To Hannah Quincy Lincoln, June 12, 1774

12. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, August 1774

13. To Hannah Quincy Lincoln, September 3, 1774

14. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, December 29, 1774

15. To Abigail Smith Adams, December 29, 1774

16. To John Adams, January 30, 1775

17. To Sarah Brown Bowen, April 1775

18. To Harriet Shirley Temple, June 2, 1775

19. To James Warren, June 15, 1775

20. To Ellen Hobart Lothrop, [July?] 1775

21. To Harriet Shirley Temple, July 30, 1775

22. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, August 24, 1775

23. To John Thomas, January 10, 1776

24. To James Warren, January [20], 1776

25. To Janet Livingston Montgomery, January 20, 1776

26. To James Warren, February 11, 1776

27. To John Adams, March [10], 1776

28. To Dorothy Quincy Hancock, [c. April] 1776

29. To James Warren Jr., June 1776

30. To James Warren, [September] 15, [1776]

31. To James Warren, November 24, 1776

32. To James Warren, December 26, [1776]

33. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, February 1, 177[7]

34. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, February 15, 1777, part 1

35. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, February 15, 1777, part 2

36. To James Warren, [June 14, 1777].

37. To Janet Livingston Montgomery, November 25, 1777

38. To James Warren, [December 30, 1777]

39. To James Warren, March 10, 1778

40. To James Warren, June 2, 1778

41. To John Adams, December 16, 1778

42. To Abigail Smith Adams, March 14, 1779

43. To Janet Livingston Montgomery, March 18, 1779

44. To Hannah Fayerwether Tolman Winthrop, May 24, 1779

45. To John Adams, July 29, 1779

46. To Winslow Warren, December 4, 1779

47. To Winslow Warren, December 1779

48. To James Warren, [January 1780?]

49. To Janet Livingston Montgomery, January 5, 1780

50. To James Warren, March 12, 1780

51. To Winslow Warren, March 25, 1780

52. To John Adams, May 8, 1780

53. To John Sloss Hobart, June 9, 1780

54. To Janet Livingston Montgomery, June 178[0]

55. To Winslow Warren, August 20, 1780

56. To Winslow Warren, November 7, 1780

57. To Catherine Livingston, [November 23, 1780]

58. To Winslow Warren, December 16, 1780

59. To Winslow Warren, January 18, 1781

60. To Winslow Warren, September 28, 1781

61. To Winslow Warren, March 24, 1782

62. To Catherine Livingston, July 5, 1782

63. To Janet Livingston Montgomery, October 1782

64. To Winslow Warren, November 24, 1782

65. To John Adams, December 18, 1782

66. To John Adams, [May?] 1783

67. To Winslow Warren, May 4, 1783

68. To Winslow Warren, May 19, 1783

69. To Elizabeth Otis Brown, June 15, 1783

70. To Abigail Smith Adams, April 24, 1784

71. To Sarah Sever, May 2, 1784

72. To Winslow Warren, August 16, 1784

73. To Winslow Warren, August 22, 1784

74. To Winslow Warren, August 28, 1784

75. To Winslow Warren, November 11, 1784

76. To Winslow Warren, January 4, 1785

77. To Martha Ball Custis Washington, April 1785

78. To Janet Livingston Montgomery, April 1785

79. To John Adams, September 1785.

80. To James Warren Jr., [January] 178[6]

81. To Elbridge Gerry, February 19, 1786

82. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, [September?] 1786

83. To John Adams, December 1786

84. To Dorothy Quincy Hancock, [February?] 17[87]

85. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, December 18, 1787

86. To John Adams, May 8, 1789

87. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, July 1789

88. To James Warren, March 29, 1790

89. To George Washington, May 18, 1790

90. To Winslow Warren, April 25, 1791

91. To Winslow Warren, May 22, 1791

92. To Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, May 31, 1791

93. To James Warren Jr., [December] 28, 1791

94. To Janet Livingston Montgomery, April 1792

95. To Henry Warren, February 10, 1793

96. To Elizabeth Otis Brown, April 28, 1793

97. To Sarah Gray Cary, June 24, 1793

98. To Robert Treat Paine, [October 1794?]

99. To James Warren Jr., May 14, 1796

100. To Sarah Gray Cary, June 8, 1799

101. To Sarah Gray Cary, August 18, 1799

102. To Sarah Gray Cary, August 23, 1800

103. To Sarah Gray Cary, February 7, 1802

104. To a Very Young Lady, [Early 1800s?]

105. To Margaret Cary, January 1, 1814

106. To Mary Gray Otis, May 24, 1814

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-265) and index.

ISBN:

9781282726192

1282726196

9780820336732

0820336734

OCLC:

647879016