Hannah Mather Crocker

Hannah Mather Crocker was an American essayist, poet, and historian. She was an early advocates of women's rights in America, and a pioneer for women's participation in Freemasonry. Her memoir and history of Massachusetts, The Reminisces and Traditions of Boston (1828), is the first known history of the American Revolution to be published in America, and her Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818) was the first book-length philosophical treatise on women's rights to be published by an American.