A representative female writer, historian, and political activist of the American Revolutionary period. She anonymously published anti-British poems, plays, and political satires, spreading ideas of independence among colonial residents. She interacted with many revolutionary leaders such as Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, supporting the independence movement intellectually. In 1805, she published History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, becoming known as one of the earliest historians to record the Revolutionary War.

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