an 18th-century American poet and Quaker who championed the resistance of American colonists to Britain during the run-up to the American Revolution. Griffitts is best known for a series of scathing satires that celebrate the American colonists' opposition to Britain in the decades before the American Revolution. For example, she wrote several proto-feminist poems about the Daughters of Liberty, a group of women active in protesting British policies in the Thirteen Colonies.
