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Grimké

[ grim-kee ]

noun

  1. Sarah Moore, 1792–1873, and her sister Angelina Emily, 1805–79, U.S. abolitionists and women's-rights leaders.


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Sarah and Angelina Grimke became famous in part for joining the abolitionist movement, unlike most of their white peers.

The Grimké sisters, Sarah Moore and Angelina Emily, were Quakers and daughters of a prominent South Carolina judge.

In Grimké’s hands, the meter generates an unsettled urgency:

Longing quickens the pulse of these lines: their singsong regularity followed by sudden disruption, a conscious stumbling as Grimké’s first-person speaker makes her passion plain, before returning to the rigid music of the form.

Grimké nurtured many young writers before dying in 1958 at 78.

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