USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Her most seminal work, History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, a three-volume set that she published in 1805 at the age of seventy-seven, was one of the first comprehensive histories of the American Revolution. Mercy Otis was born September 25, 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mercy Otis Warren was one of the few women who broke the mold during a time when women were expected not to participate in political matters. She worked as a poet, political playwright, and pamphleteer to become the leading female philosopher of the Revolution and new nation.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1790, she published Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, a collection that included two verse dramas. But by far Warren’s most important literary work was History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805), a 3-volume history she had begun in the late 1770s.