MERCY OTIS WARREN
\mˈɜːsi ˈə͡ʊtɪs wˈɒɹən], \mˈɜːsi ˈəʊtɪs wˈɒɹən], \m_ˈɜː_s_i_ ˈəʊ_t_ɪ_s w_ˈɒ_ɹ_ə_n]\
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An American poet, historian, and patriot; born at Barnstable, Mass., Sept. 25, 1728; died at Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 19, 1814. An ardent patriot, she corresponded with the leaders of the Revolution, among them Samuel and John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The "Correspondence of John Adams and Mercy Warren" was published by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1878. She wrote dramatic and satirical poems against the royalists (1773-75), which were included in her volume of "Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous" (1790). She published "A History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical, Political, and Moral Observations" (3 vols., 1805).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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