Crocker, Hannah Mather (1752–1829)
Crocker, Hannah Mather (1752–1829)
American feminist. Born Hannah Mather, June 27, 1752, in Boston, Massachusetts; died July 11, 1829, in Roxbury, MA; dau. of Rev. Samuel Mather (1706–1785) and Hannah (Hutchinson) Mather; granddau. of Cotton Mather; m. Joseph Crocker (captain in the Revolution), 1779 (died 1797); children: 10.
Helped organize, and presided over, a women's Masonic Lodge (beginning 1778); published compilation of her writings about the Lodge, A Series of Letters on Free Masonry (1815); published the historic Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818), which maintained that the female mind is equal to the male mind.
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