| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation. By Nancy Rubin Stuart. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. xiv, 314 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-5516-8.)
In 1801, Mercy Otis Warren yearned to write a lengthy letter to her niece, Mary Allyne Otis. But she had to settle for a brief note written for her by her son James. Loss of vision and painful headaches limited the seventy-three-year-old matron to a darkened room and an amanuensis. These limitations were a cruel turn for a woman who had lived a writing life. Still, Warren's poor vision did not dampen her literary desire. "If I get my eyes again," she announced, "I shall keep writing on" (Mercy Otis Warren to Mary Allyne Otis, Feb. 14, 1801, Gay-Otis Papers, Butler Library, Columbia University).	1
Nancy Rubin Stuart's The Muse of the Revolution explores this passion for writing and the events that inspired it. The study opens with an introduction to Warren's family and friends that also establishes her early connections to the American Revolution. The balance of the study focuses on Warren's personal and literary responses to the Revolution and its aftermath.	. . .

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