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Join Plimoth Patuxet as they welcome author Nancy Stuart Rubin to discuss her book The Muse of the Revolution, a biography of Mercy Otis Warren.

About the Book

Founding Mother, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), America’s first woman playwright and historian, secretly authored anti- British plays and anti-Tory propaganda play which stoked the flames that led to the Revolution. Mercy, the mother of five sons and the wife of patriot husband James Warren, often hosted Sons of Liberty meetings in the couple’s Plymouth, Massachusetts home. During them John Adams became so impressed with Mercy’s literary talent that he encouraged her to write about politics in an era when women were expected to remain silent.

During the Revolution she collected information, wrote other political plays and after ratification of the U.S. Constitution, penned an influential pamphlet arguing for a Bill of Rights. In 1805, Mercy finally published her life's work, The History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution.

Just why history has nearly forgotten Mrs. Warren, why she and other patriots endured social and economic blows in the post-Revolutionary period, and why it took her thirty years to complete her history are poignantly revealed in this award- winning book.