YOUR VIEW: Plymouth can do better by the ‘First Lady of the Bill of Rights’ - Plymouth Independent

YOUR VIEW: Plymouth can do better by the ‘First Lady of the Bill of Rights’ - Plymouth Independent

Mercy Otis Warren, the Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer and activist, holds court in the American wing of the Museum of Fine Arts resplendent in a royal blue and lacy frock; Her aristocratic bearing disguising the passions that led her to inspire widespread colonial rebellion against British rule. In due course, Warren’s writings not only advocated for the founding of a new country but, crucially, one that guaranteed individual rights. At a tim…