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oston: Manning and Loring, 1805; Liberty Classics, Indianapolis, 1988) is one of the most important contemporaneous histories of the period. The largest body of Warren's manuscript material rests with the Massachusetts Historical Society. Mary Elizabeth Regan's Pundit and Prophet of the Old Republic: The Life and Times of Mercy Otis Warren (unpub. Ph.D. dis., University of California, 1984) provides good biographical material. Linda Kerber's overview Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980) is valuable for a more general understanding of women's role in the American Revolution.
In the 1820's, Frances Wright--a follower of the Utopian philosopher Robert Owen--visited America and wrote a long series of letters home to Glasgow. These formed the well-received travel memoir Views of Society and Manners in America (1821; Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1963) ed. Paul R. Baker. Written from a libertarian and secular pointofview, this book used American society to c...