The Muse of the Revolution by Nancy Rubin Stuart

Author:Nancy Rubin Stuart [Stuart, Nancy Rubin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-9736-6
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2008-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Portrait of Winslow Warren by John Singleton Copley.

Photograph © 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In spite of her fondness for Clifford, Mercy was entranced with her new hilltop home, especially its “shady walks, the pleasant groves . . . delightful landscape from the parlor window”—domestic pleasures she believed better than the “whirl of dissipation, the ostentation, pomp and noise of the convivial board” and the “drawing room” of fashionable Boston.

Like Sally, who had a crush upon her “favorite” cousin, Winslow, Mercy admitted that one of her trials was waiting “almost impatiently . . . [for] the arrival of a vessel” carrying European mail. Not that Winslow was lax, she assured Sally. Her son wrote “by all opportunities” with sentiments “pleasing to the mother and the friend.”

She would write again, Mercy promised, albeit infrequently. “Remember, the weak optics [eyes] are employed this way the present winter only for the use of a dear absent son.”5

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