What contribution did mercy Otis warren make?

Answer 1

Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) was America's first female playwright and first female historian of the American Revoution.

In the early years of the struggle for independence from Great Britain, Mercy became famous for her outspoken writings for liberty, social equality and fair government and later. While her three popular anti-Tory, anti-British propoganda plays were anonymously written during the Revoution, Mercy's subsequent writings on liberty, thrift and respect,for the voice of the people as well as her treatise pleading for a Bill of Right enabled her eventual recognition not only as the conscience of the Revolution but its muse because of her erudite literary style.

Her lifelong work, "The History of the Rise,Progress and Termination of the American Revolution," pubilshed in three volumes in 1805 was the sole Jeffersonian democratic interpretation of the American Revolution published in that era.

Mercy Otis Warren was the younger sister of James Otis, Jr., the firebrand who first protested to the Crown that "taxation without representation," and thus sparked the initial protests that led to the Revolution. Her husband, James Warren, was president of the Provincial Congress in Massachusetts during the Revolution and frequently served as Speaker in the Massachusetts General Court, or Assembly. These associations, along with her friendships with John and Abigal Adams placed Mercy in the center of the action when the British first occupied Boston in 1775.

Nancy Rubin Stuart, Author, The Muse of the REvolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation ( Beacon Press, 2008, 2009).

Answer 2

She formed the Committees of Correspondence, and wrote several plays against a Governer of Massachusetts. She also wrote Post-Revolution Writings.

--Amy, 5th grader

Answer 3

Mercy Otis Warren wrote prose or poetry, plays, and history of the American revolution.