Primary Works

The Adulateur, 1773; The Defeat, 1773; The Group, 1775; Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, 1790; History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, 1805.

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794 and Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814. An additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention; to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrated and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters. Together with Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian patriot. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1962. JK146 .L4

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Baym, Nina. "Between Enlightenment and Victorian: Toward a Narrative of American Women Writers Writing History." Critical Inquiry 18.1 (Autm 1991): 22-41.

- - -. "Mercy Otis Warren's Gendered Melodrama of Revolution." South Atlantic Quarterly 90.3 (Sumr 1991): 531-54.

Cohen, Lester H. "Mercy Otis Warren: The Politics of Language and the Aesthetics of Self." American Quarterly 35.5 (Wint 1983): 481-498.

Cohen, Lester H. "Explaining the Revolution: Ideology and Ethics in Mercy Otis Warren's Historical Theory." William and Mary Quarterly 37 (1980): 200-18.

Detsi, Zoe. "The Metaphors of Freedom: Republican Rhetoric and Gender Ideology in Mercy Otis Warren's Romantic Tragedies, The Sack of Rome and The Ladies of Castile." American Drama 8.1 (Fall 1998): 1-25.

- - -. "Mercy Otis Warren: Her Political Self and Her Personal Dilemma." Gramma 2 (1994): 35-45.

Franklin, Benjamin, V. "A Note on Mercy Otis Warren's The Defeat." Early American Literature 17.2 (Fall 1982): 165.

- - -. ed. The Plays and Poems of Mercy Otis Warren. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsims. & Rpts., 1980.

Haverstick, Iola S. "Three Lively Ladies of the Overbury Collection." Columbia Library Columns 21.2 (1971): 20-27.

Hayes, Edmund M. "Mercy Otis Warren versus Lord Chesterfield, 1779." William and Mary Quarterly 40.4 (Oct 1983): 616-621.

- - -. "The Private Poems of Mercy Otis Warren." New England Quarterly 54.2 (Jun 1981): 199-203.

Hornstein, Jacqueline. "Comic Vision in the Literature of New England Women before 1800." Regionalism and the Female Imagination 3.2-3 (1977-78): 11-19.

Kern, Jean B. "Mercy Otis Warren: Dramatist of the American Revolution." Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820. Eds. Mary A. Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. Athens: Ohio UP, 1991. 247-59.

Nicolay, Theresa F. Gender Roles, Literary Authority, and Three American Women Writers: Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Mercy Otis Warren, Margaret Fuller Ossoli. NY: Peter Lang, 1995.

Oreovicz, Cheryl Z. "Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)." Legacy 13.1 (1996): 54-63.

- - -. "Heroic Drama for an Uncertain Age: The Plays of Mercy Warren." Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole. Ed. Kathryn Z. Derounian-Stodola. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1992. 192-210.

- - -. "Mercy Warren and 'Freedom's Genius'." University of Mississippi Studies in English 5 (1984-1987): 215-230.

Richards, Jeffrey H. Mercy Otis Warren. NY: Twayne, 1995. PS858 .W8 Z88

- - -. "Mercy Otis Warren (25 September 1728 - 19 October 1814)." American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Eds. Carla Mulford, Angela Vietto, and Amy E. Winans. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 385-98.

Richi, Cecilia. "Worried Celebrants of the American Revolution." American Literature, 1764-1789: The Revolutionary Years. Ed. Everett Emerson. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1977. 275-91

Schofield, Mary A. "The Happy Revolution: Colonial Women and the Eighteenth-Century Theater." Modern American Drama: The Female Canon. Ed. June Schlueter. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990. 29-37.

Weales, Gerald. "The Adulateur and How It Grew." Library Chronicle 43 (1979): 103-133.

- - -. "The Quality of Mercy, or Mrs. Warren's Profession." Georgia Review 33 (1979): 881-94.

Wilson, Joan H., and Sharon L. Bollinger. "Mercy Otis Warren: Playwright, Poet, and Historian of the American Revolution (American, 1728-1814)." Female Scholars: A Tradition of Learned Women before 1800. Ed. J. R. Brink. Montreal: Eden Press Women's Publications, 1980. 161-82.

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