| Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters Subjects: Warren Mercy Otis 1728–1814 -- Correspondence; Authors American -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Women authors American -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Historians -- United States -- Correspondence; Women historians -- United States -- Correspond; This volume gathers more than one hundred letters-most of them previously unpublished-written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814). Warren, whose works include a three-volume history of the American Revolution as well as plays and poems, was a major literary figure of her era and one of the most important American women writers of the eighteenth century. Her correspondents included Martha and George Washington, Abigail and John Adams, and Catharine Macaulay. Jeffrey H. Richards (Editor) JEFFREY H. RICHARDS is a professor of English at Old Dominion University and author of a literary biography of Mercy Otis Warren among other books. Sharon M. Harris (Editor) SHARON M. HARRIS is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. The author or editor of numerous books, she is founder of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. |