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from Phebe Hanaford, Daughters of America or Women of the Century [Augusta, Me: True and Company, 1882], pp. 335-336

      MARY GREW of Philadelphia, was "for thirty years one of the ablest and most faithful workers both in the anti-slavery and woman's-rights cause. . . . The women who devoted themselves to the anti-slavery cause in the early days endured the double odium of being abolitionists, and 'women out of their sphere,' . . . A clerical appeal was issued, and set to all the clergymen in New England, calling on them to denounce in their pulpits this unwomanly and unchristian proceeding. Sermons were preached portraying in the darkest colors the fearful results to the Church, the State, and the home, in thus encouraging women to enter public life. It was the opposition of the clergy to woman's speaking and voting in their meetings, that occasioned the first division in 'The American Anti-Slavery Society.' " When the abolitionists met in the World's Convention in London, in 1840, the women delegates from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were denied a place. The delegation consisted of LUCRETIA M OTT, MARY GREW, ABBY KIMBER, ELIZABETH NEALE, SARAH PUGH, from Pennsylvania; EMILY WINSLOW, ABBY SOUTHWICK, and ANNE GREENE PHILLIPS, of Massachusetts, -- all worthy women of the first century, ostracized on that occasion for no fault of theirs, but because the Almighty chose that they should be his daughters rather than his sons."

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