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 Nancy at the podium  Mercy Otis Warren Day at the Barnstable Court House July 4, 2008.  Mount Independence Historic Site, Orwell, Vermont August 2009  Signing books at the West Barnstable Festival
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Ever since the 2008 publication of THE MUSE OF THE REVOLUTION, Nancy has been entertaining audiences with talks and slide presentations. Among them have been appearances at Boston's Old State House, the Old South Meeting House, the Massachusetts Historical Society, Brown University's John Hay Library, Manhattan's Fraunces Tavern and the National Arts Club.
Nancy's talk at Brown University on December 13, 2008 aired on C-Span's Book TV. Here's the link: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=282704-1.
In 2009 the author spoke about THE MUSE OF THE REVOLUTION to audiences at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles, at Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, the American Independence Museum, and the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.
More talks are scheduled for 2010. This March during Women's History Month, she will speak on Saturday, the 13th at Manhattan's Morris-Jumel Mansion,followed on the 14th by a talk at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Other presentations this year include:
Monday, May 3, 2010 5:30 p.m. Twentieth Anniversary Women Writing Women’s Lives, Seminar, City University Graduate Center, Tamiment Library, New York University, New York, New York.
Wednesday, May 5 at 7:00 p.m. Plympton Historical Society, 89 Main Street Plympton, MA 02367 phone 781-585-2725. Contact: Chris Maiorano at piedpiperpreschool@comcast.net 781-585-6843.
Monday, May 10 at 1:pm. Golden Ball Tavern, Panel “Hearth, Home and Haberdashy,” Program starts at 10:00 a.m. Contact: Dr. Joan Bines , First Parish Church, 349 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA 02493, 781-861-6218/(c 781-771-1761 or 1751
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. American Association of University Women, Cape Cod Branch, Nelson Hall, St. David’s Church, 205 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA 02664-4529, Contact: Phyllis Rubin phyllisrubin@comcast.net
Monday, 7:00 p.m. July 12, 2010. A Book in the Hand , Jacob Sears Memorial Library, 23 Center Street, East Dennis 02641 508-385-8151 Contact: Elizabeth Moisan 508-394-3679 Moisan.eg@gmail.com
 July 4, 2008 presentation at the Barnstable County Courthouse, Massachusetts
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REVIEWS
A riveting biography of one of America's boldest and most influential-but least recognized-Founding Mothers. "This wonderfully researched and readable book has done an excellent job of giving another view of what it took to make this country. Essential for academic and public libraries. Enjoy!"–Library Journal, May 1, 2008
“This commendable biography follows the life of New England patriot Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), the celebrated—and sometimes reviled—writer of poems, plays, history and satire...Warren emerges as a fully fleshed-out woman with literary insecurities, intractable opinions and a high-strung temper as well as deep affection for her husband and sons. Stuart includes fascinating period details, focusing primarily on Warren's home-front experiences of rampant inflation, scarcity of goods, high taxes and profiteering during the Revolution as well as typical 18th-century illnesses and family anxieties. Most poignantly, Stuart depicts Warren's loneliness and despair after the deaths of three of her five sons. This account is valuable as an eyewitness play-by-play of the American Revolution and will be a great resource to scholars of women's and literary history."–Publisher's Weekly, May 5, 2008
"Concise and readable... focuses on a founding mother who wrote in part because that was the one way a woman could contribute to the Revolution...there's plenty in Stuart's pages for those interested in the drama of the woman writer in Western culture."–Boston Globe, June 29, 2008
"This dramatic biography makes it clear that future President Adams relied extensively upon advice from his wife, Abigail, as well as upon the guidance of Mercy Otis Warren...As Stuart demonstrates , Warren was a woman of independent hopes and dreams who believed strongly that she could express important ideas to the new American republic with her writing. Thankfully, she was right."–American Spirit, The Magazine of the Daughters of the American Revolution, July/August 2008
"Incredible source data, smooth narratives built around chapters, fragmented around specific moments, and intricate use of historical detail and setting...Stuart breathes new life into an early American poet and historian too often left out of historical discussion."–Metro Spirit, Augusta, Georgia, July 2, 2008
"Nancy Rubin Stuart, the author of several popular biographies, presents Warren in a colorfully anecdotal style. Given the difficulty of reconstructing warren's life, Stuart has artfully set the story in the context of the Revolution and relied upon her subject's friendships, especially with the Adamses. The pace is brisk, if not jaunty... As a lively introduction to the great Mercy Otis Warren, this book is appealing."–Wilson Quarterly
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