Scope and Contents The Letters on the Equality of the Sexes were written by Sarah Grimké in 1837. The portrait is of the Artist Siobhan Liddell. She was born in England and lives and works in New York. I met her whilel I was a resident at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. Wikipedia: Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879) known as the Grimké sisters, were 19th-century Southern American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights. Angelina Grimké married abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld in May 1838, and changed her name to Angelina Grimké Weld. They were born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Sarah Moore Grimke was born on November 26, 1792 and Angelina Emily Grimke was born on February 20, 1805. Throughout their lives, they traveled throughout the North, lecturing about their first hand experiences with slavery on their family's plantation. Among the first American women to act publicly in social reform...