Martha "Mattie" Griffith Browne (October 2, 1828 – 25 May 1906)[2] was an anti-slavery novelist and American suffragist.

[9] This novel helped bolster Griffith's image and elevated her role in the American Anti-Slavery Movement during the late 1850s.

After publication, Autobiography gained the attention of influential abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Lydia Maria Child.

[10] During the Civil War, Griffith composed Ratie: A True Story of a Little Hunchback which was also serialized in the National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1862.

Her works such as Autobiography of a Female Slave, Madge Vertner, and Ratie: A True Story of a Little Hunchback, the former published and the two latter were serialized in the National Anti-Slavery Standard.

[5] In 1894 she was able to provide lodgings for Anna B. Eckstein who was then working as a teacher in Boston,[13] but would go on be a notable pacifist.