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Sarah Moore Grimké

1792 - 1873

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Sarah Moore Grimké (November 26, 1792 – December 23, 1873) was an American abolitionist, widely held to be the mother of the women's suffrage movement.: xxi  Born and reared in South Carolina to a prominent and wealthy planter family, she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1820s and became a Quaker, as did her younger sister Angelina. The sisters began to speak on the abolitionist lecture circuit, joining a tradition of women who had been speaking in public on political issues since colonial days, including Susanna Wright, Hannah Griffitts, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Anna Dickinson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah Moore Grimké has received more than 423,324 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sarah Moore Grimké is the 5,989th most popular writer (down from 5,613th in 2019), the 9,689th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,896th in 2019) and the 731st most popular American Writer.

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  • 420k

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  • 44.02

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

[Letter to] Dear brother Garrison
Correspondence, History, Antislavery movements
1867
An epistle to the clergy of the southern states
Controversial literature, Slavery, Slavery in the Bible
1836
Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman
History, History and condition of women, Social conditions
Grimké, an active abolitionist and crusader for women's rights, sets down her thoughts on the natural equality of the sexes and foreshadows many of the arguments of later feminists.
1838
Letters On The Equality Of The Sexes, And The Condition Of Woman
2018
Letters On The Equality Of The Sexes And The Condition Of Woman
2007
Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of woman, addressed to Mary S. Parker
Rights of women, Women, History and condition of women
1970

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sarah Moore Grimké ranks 5,989 out of 7,302. Before her are Francis Chichester, Jean Dutourd, Khushwant Singh, Liam O'Flaherty, Mihkel Veske, and Richard Russo. After her are Vladimir Tendryakov, Liao Yiwu, Leszek Engelking, Alexander Afinogenov, Alex Garland, and Gardner Fox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Sarah Moore Grimké ranks 67. Before her are Jean-Jacques Willmar, Vicente Ramón Roca, Thaddeus Stevens, Gulab Singh, Andreas Kalvos, and Thomas Bell. After her are Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, Lowell Mason, John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Thomas Romney Robinson, William Hobson, and John Keble. Among people deceased in 1873, Sarah Moore Grimké ranks 79. Before her are Per Georg Scheutz, George-Étienne Cartier, Charles Allston Collins, Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, and Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz. After her are Tekle Giyorgis II, William J. Hardee, John W. Geary, and Hamilton Hume.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sarah Moore Grimké ranks 9,689 out of 20,380. Before her are Erin Moran (1960), Jessica Hecht (1965), Shari Arison (1957), Lucy Hale (1989), Chick Webb (1905), and Richard Russo (1949). After her are George Lott (1906), Maggie McNamara (1928), Sally Menke (1953), Brad Wilk (1968), Stanley Wagner (1908), and Dan Dailey (1915).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sarah Moore Grimké ranks 731. Before her are Daniel Quinn (1935), Winston Churchill (1871), Walter Lord (1917), Michael Parenti (1933), Tom Brokaw (1940), and Richard Russo (1949). After her are Gardner Fox (1911), W. S. Merwin (1927), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896), Carol J. Adams (1951), Jonathan Safran Foer (1977), and Harry Turtledove (1949).

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