Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender.(Book review)

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender. By Kate Davies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 336 pp. $95.00

In 1785, a Boston publisher issued Sans Souci, alias, Free and Easy, a three-act satire targeting the weekly assembly of the city's bon ton for tea and cards under the name of Sans Souci. Among the characters in this play, wearing flimsy allegorical disguises as "the republican heroine" and "Mrs. W--n," were two epistolary acquaintances who ranked among the preeminent female intellectuals of the ...

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