The Role of Women in the American Revolution by Hallie Murray

Author:Hallie Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

This statue of Mercy Otis Warren can be found near the Barnstable County Courthouse in Warren’s hometown of Barnstable, Massachusetts.

During the war, Warren began a history of the Revolution, which eventually became a work entitled A History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. It was published in 1805 when Warren was seventy-seven years old. Warren was no longer satisfied with being anonymous; her three-volume history was published with her name proudly displayed upon it.

Because of this, Warren is often considered the first true American woman author. Other women were writing at the same time, and a few others were published, but normally women did not expect their work to find publication. Warren was the first woman in the country who wrote with the goal of having her work published and distributed widely.

Mercy Otis Warren died in 1814. In her honor, a bronze statue was dedicated at the courthouse in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on July 4, 2001. It stands opposite a statue of another Barnstable patriot hero, her brother James Otis Jr.

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