A review by nerfherder86
Write On, Mercy! The Secret Life of Mercy Otis Warren by Alexandra Wallner, Gretchen Woelfle

3.0

Charming picture book about a woman writer whom I had never heard of: Mercy Otis Warren. She lived during the 18th century, in Massachusetts, and wrote political (Patriot) poetry and plays during the Revolutionary War. Later she wrote a three volume history of the American Revolution, taking thirty years to finish it. The writing of this book is a little choppy, jumping from scene to scene without transitions, but it's a nice simplification of her life and the complexities of being a wife and mother and running a household, supporting her husband while he was in George Washington's army, while secretly writing and having an intellectual life in a time when women were not expected to. Illustrations are flat, primary colors, primitive style.