Perry, Mark E. Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders. New York: Viking Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-200103-1 Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Daughter of the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, she was photographed by Lewis Carroll as a child, along with her close friend Ina Liddell, sister of Alice of Wonderland fame. The critic John Ruskin taught her art and she also knew many of the Pre-Raphaelites, holding Rossetti’s palette for him as he painted the Oxford Union murals.

man is never vested with this dominion over his fellow man; he was never told that any of the human species were put under his feet; it was only all things, and man, who was created in the image of his Maker, never can properly be termed a thing.In 1838, Sarah wrote a paper called "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women." It answered many questions which were asked in a letter by a group of ministers who did not like the sisters because they had stepped out of their "woman's proper sphere". Ceplair, Larry, Editor. The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings 1835 - 1839. Columbia University Press, New York, 1989.

Ceplair, Larry (1989). The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké. Selected Writings 1835–1839. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 023106800X. Nelson, Robert K. (Spring 2004). " 'The Forgetfulness of Sex': Devotion and Desire in the Courtship Letters of Angelina Grimké and Theodore Dwight Weld". Journal of Social History. 37 (3): 663–679. doi: 10.1353/jsh.2004.0018. S2CID 144261184– via Project MUSE. Presentation by Greenidge on The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family, November 15, 2022, C-SPAN

First Lady of Colour Photography

In 1998, Grimké was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. [20] She is also remembered on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. [21] Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), a white woman, helped mightily to educate Americans of the reality of slave life when she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. Angelina Grimké Weld is also a prominent character in Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Invention of Wings, which centers on the stories of Sarah Moore Grimké and a slave in the Grimké household named Handful.

This new book provides the only opportunity to see Miss Acland’s photographs, illustrating more than 200 examples of her work, from portraits to picturesque views of the gardens of Madeira. Some fifty unpublished specimens of the photographic art and science of her peers are also reproduced from the Bodleian collections, including four unrecorded child portraits by Carroll. Detailed descriptions accompany the images, explaining their interest and significance.

Katharine Henry (1997). "Angelina Grimké's Rhetoric of Exposure". American Quarterly. 49 (2): 328–55. doi: 10.1353/aq.1997.0015. S2CID 143719673. Lerner, Gerda (2004). The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807855669. John Grimke, the patriarch, sired 14 white children and held more than 300 enslaved workers on his extensive properties in the South Carolina Low Country and in Charleston. Sarah, his sixth child, born in 1792, displayed remarkable intellectual gifts from an early age, but such talents were not welcomed in a girl. While her father permitted her to teach herself using the books in his library, he denied her the education provided to her brothers. Sarah described taking a “malicious satisfaction” in defying both her parents and South Carolina law by teaching her “little waiting maid” and numbers of other enslaved workers to read and write. When Sarah’s mother gave birth to her last child, in 1805, Sarah insisted on being named the baby’s godmother. Angelina would be her surrogate daughter.