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The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

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“Inevitably, the British barrier ringing Boston created new hardships for residents. While initially forbidden to leave the city, new food shortages sweltering summer temperatures convinced Gage to grant some citizens passes. ...Even after the arrival of fishing boats civilians could not buy the catch until the British were supplied. Outbreaks of disease became common.”

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“By then Mercy, too, had evolved from the decorous wife of an affluent patriot into a reporter for those removed from the theater of war.”

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“Within a day Mercy heard the news. She never forgot it. A few months later, that riot became the backdrop for her first political satire.”

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“With the distanced drumbeat of the Revolution, the chink of coins suddenly became more important than commitment to the cause.”

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“What, after all, was the point of describing a Revolution meant to create a democratic republic of free men that was destroyed by power-hungry men determined to create a new 'aristocracy?”

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“In the wake of that uproar, Boston settled into a sullen calm, probably at the stern insistence of Sam Adams, who reprimanded the street gangs, printers and "wharf rats" who often identified themselves as Sons of Liberty.”

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“The usual method for starting a fire in colonial America was to strike flint against steel. the usual way to protest an injustice was to bring a suit to the colonial courts.”

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“In late summer, when sprays of purple loosestrife, goldenrod, and ripening cranberries burst into color along the old road cutting through the Great Marsh of West Barnstable on Cape Cod, the air vibrated with the drumbeat of cicadas, the caws of seagulls and geese.”

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“A young woman's ability to read beyond the bible had little practical value.”

Women Empowerment Women S Issues Women Education

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