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The muse of the revolution : the secret pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the founding of a nation / Nancy Rubin Stuart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stuart, Nancy Rubin, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814.
- Warren, Mercy Otis.
- Women historians--United States--Biography.
- Women historians.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
- Contents:
- Daughter of liberty
- Conscience of the Revolution
- The patriot historian
- Penwoman to posterity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-297) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8070-9736-5
- OCLC:
- 646769159
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