Sarah Stanley Grimke (1850-1898) was born in Oswego, New York, and died in San Diego, California. She graduated from Boston University in 1878 after completing the philosophical course. After graduation, she lived in Boston and associated with transcendentalists, including Bronson Alcott and Cyrus Augustus Bartol. Later, she embraced mind cure and authored several works on the subject: Personified Unthinkables: An Argument Against Physical Causation (1884), First Lessons in Reality, or, The Psychical Basis of Physical Health (1886), and Esoteric Lessons, published posthumously in 1900. Grimke was married to Archibald Grimke (1849-1930), an American lawyer and abolitionist born into slavery, and they had a daughter, Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) who was an American journalist and author.

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