(1728–1814), U.S. poet, historian, and dramatist, born in Barnstable, Mass.; unofficial historian and poet laureate of the era of the American Revolution; sister of James Otis, vehement opponent of the Stamp Act; received no formal schooling; associated with most of the leaders of the American Revolutionary War, about which she wrote; wrote ‘Poems Dramatic and Miscellaneous' (1790), ‘A History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution' (1805); staunchly democratic and a feminist ahead of her time; wife of political leader James Warren.