Hannah Griffitts
Hannah Griffitts (1727–1817) was an 18th-century American poet and Quaker who championed the resistance of American colonists to Britain during the run-up to the American Revolution.
Quotes
[edit]- Then for the sake of Freedom’s name,
(Since British wisdom scorns repealing)
Come sacrifice to Patriot fame,
And give up tea by way of healing.- "'Beware of the Ides of March', Said the Roman Augur To Julius Caesar" (wr. February 28, 1775), st. 3 (ed. Patti Cowell, 1981)
- MSS. held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]
- Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800 (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1980), p. 160
- Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP, 1980), p. 39
- Patti Cowell (ed.) Women Poets in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1650–1775: An Anthology (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1981), pp. 55–69