During these 24 hours of Independence Day celebration in the United States, it’s fitting to salute Mercy Otis Warren, the first female historian of the American Revolution and America’s first woman playwright.
You can read all about this wife, mother of five boys and playwright and her work in the biography, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation, written by Nancy Rubin Stuart (who also knows a little something about theatre, the writing life and being a mom).
Read Ms. Stuart’s July 4th contribution to Beacon Broadside here, and learn more about Mercy, a fierce patriot and the original American mom playwright.
Have a happy and safe holiday!
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