History of Hyde Park, (Suffolk County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Sarah Moore Grimk?, reformer, was born in Charleston, S.C., Nov. 6, 1793 ; daughter of Judge John Fauchereau and Mary (Smith) Grimk?. With her sister, she became a member of the Society of Friends, after having removed to Philadelphia. She joined the Anti-slavery society in Philadelphia in 1821 and also advocated woman's rights, lecturing with her sister in New York and New England in private houses, as they were not permitted to speak in public halls. After 1840 she taught in Belvidere, N.J., and resided with her sister, Mrs. Weld, there and at Hyde Park. Mass. The appearance of the sisters as public lecturers gained for them the opposition of all the clergymen except the most liberal, and the general association of Congregational ministers in West Brookfield included in their pastoral letter a warning against these ladies as enticing "women from their proper sphere and loosening the foundations of the family." Whittier replied to this in his poem, "The Pastoral Letter." Miss Grimk? is author of: An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (1827); Letters on the Condition of Woman and the Equality of the Sexes (1838); and a translation of Lamartine's Biography of Joan of Arc (1867). She died at Hyde Park, Mass., Dec. 23, 1873.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Hyde Park, (Suffolk County) Massachusetts

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