GRIMKE, SARAH MOORE, and ANGELINA EMILY (1792-1873) and (1805-1879), American reformers, born in Charleston (S.C.)-Sarah on Nov. 6, 1792, and Angelina on Feb. 20, 1805. In 1821 Sarah, then visiting Philadelphia, be came a Quaker; so, too, did Angelina, who joined her in 1829. Both sisters were strong abolitionists. In 1836 they came to New York. Angelina then published her Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, and at the end of that year Sarah wrote an Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. In the same year, at the invita tion of the American Anti-slavery Society, Angelina, accompanied by Sarah, began giving talks on slavery, first in private and then in public. While the sisters were in Massachusetts the General As sociation of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts issued a letter calling on the clergy to close their churches to women ex horters. Garrison denounced the attack on the Grimke sisters and Whittier ridiculed it in his poem, "The Pastoral Letter." Angelina pointedly answered Miss Beecher on the Slave Question (1837) in letters in the Liberator. Sarah, who had never forgotten that her studies had been curtailed because she was a girl, contributed to the Boston Spectator papers on "The Province of Woman" and published Letters on the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes (1838), the real beginning of the "woman's rights" movement in America, and at the time a cause of anxiety to Whit tier and others, who urged upon the sisters the prior importance of the anti-slavery cause. In 1838 Angelina married Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-95) . She and her husband, accompanied by Sarah, resided at Fort„Lee (N.J.), from 1838 to 184o, then at Belleville (N.J.). They conducted a school for black and white alike at Eagleswood, near Perth Amboy. Sarah died on Dec. 23, 1873, and Angelina on Oct. 26, 1879. See Catherine H. Birney, The Grimke Sisters (1885).