“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.” American RevolutionColonial HistoryWomen Rebel Book:The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation Source: The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation