death_place death_date subject nationality name birth_date genre article_title birth_name occupation
red hook , new york 1846 1772 agriculture , social reform united states mary griffith 1772 utopian fiction mary griffith
 mary corre writer
mary griffith

mary griffith -lrb- 1772 -- 1846 -rrb- was an american writer , horticulturist and scientist .
born mary corre , she married john griffith , a wealthy new york city merchant who died in 1815 .
after the death of her husband she purchased an estate -lrb- `` charlieshope '' -rrb- in franklin township , somerset county , new jersey .
there she performed experiments in horticulture , natural history , economic entomology , the earth sciences , epidemiology , and optics and vision , publishing her results in scientific and literary journals and newspapers .
she also published several novels and stories including `` camperdown , or news from our neighborhood '' -lrb- 1836 -rrb- which included `` three hundred years hence '' , the first known utopian novel by an american woman .
griffith died in red hook , dutchess county , new york in 1846 .
