![]() ![]() ![]() But she was first and foremost a devoted wife and mother who came to her patriotic ideals largely through her firebrand brother James (“taxation without representation is tyranny”) and their father, a merchant and judge in West Barnstable, Mass., who had long clashed with British authorities. ![]() Stuart ( The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox, 2005, etc.) longs to discover in Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814) a long-lost feminist heroine, and her overeagerness is palpable in such breathless section titles as “Conscience of the Revolution” and “Penwoman to Posterity.” Yes, Warren was the author of numerous popular satirical plays that criticized the British, as well as a three-volume history of the American Revolution. Hyperbolic biography of the Massachusetts patriot and author, told largely through her correspondence with John and Abigail Adams. ![]()
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