The Sack of Rome

Mercy Otis Warren

Casa editrice: Good Press

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"The Sack of Rome" is an absorbing play about North American women by Mercy Warren. She was an American poet, dramatist, and historian whose involvement with political leaders and important national events gave special value to her writing on the American Revolutionary period. She is one of the first American women to write mainly for the public rather than for herself.

Disponibile da: 11/04/2021.

Lunghezza di stampa: 44 pagine.

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