Sarah Angelina Acland – First Lady of Colour Photography

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Her colour photographs were regarded as the finest that had ever been seen by her contemporaries, several years before the release of the Lumiere Autochrome system, which she also practised. This volume provides an introduction to Miss Acland’s photography, illustrating more than 200 examples of her work, from portraits to picturesque views of the landscape and gardens of Madeira. Some fifty specimens of the photographic art and science of her peers from Bodleian collections are also reproduced for the first time, including four unrecorded child portraits by Carroll. Pritchard, Michael (14 September 2012). "Book: Sarah Angelina Acland re-discovered as one of the Pioneers of Colour Photography". British photographic history. Ning . Retrieved 16 January 2013.

Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Daughter of the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, she was photographed by Lewis Carroll as a child, along with her close friend Ina Liddell, sister of Alice of Wonderland fame. The critic John Ruskin taught her art and she also knew many of the Pre-Raphaelites, holding Rossetti’s palette for him as he painted the Oxford Union murals. Grimké directly responds to Beecher's traditionalist argument on the place of women in all spheres of human activity: "I believe it is the woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed, whether in Church or State: and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers." [16] American Slavery as It Is [ edit ] Ceplair, Larry, Editor. The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings 1835–1839. Columbia University Press, New York, 1989.An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, is unique because it is the only written appeal made by a Southern woman to other Southern women regarding the abolition of slavery, written in the hope that Southern women would not be able to resist an appeal made by one of their own. The style of the essay is very personal in nature and uses simple language and firm assertions to convey her ideas. Angelina's Appeal was widely distributed by the American Anti-Slavery Society, and was received with great acclaim by radical abolitionists. However, it was also received with great criticism by her former Quaker community and was publicly burned in South Carolina. [ citation needed]

Her father gave her a camera, a Kodak no.3, when she was 42. She rapidly progressed to more sophisticated cameras, constantly exploring new possibilities. Weld, Theodore Dwight (1885). In Memory: Angelina Grimké Weld. Boston. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Weld, Theodore Dwight] (1880). In Memory. Angelina Grimké Weld [In Memory of Sarah Moore Grimké]. Boston: "Printed Only for Private Circulation" [Theodore Dwight Weld].As a child, Sarah Acland was photographed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) with her friend Ina Liddell, the sister of Alice Liddell. [3] [4] At the age of 5, on 20 June 1855, she and one of her brothers presented a trowel to Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Chancellor of Oxford University, at the laying of the foundation stone for the Oxford University Museum. [5] The art critic John Ruskin taught her art and she also knew a number of the Pre-Raphaelites. She even assisted Dante Gabriel Rossetti when he was painting murals at the Oxford Union. The Grimké sisters challenged a misconception that was widespread in their time and that persists today, namely, that God is either silent on slavery or in support of it. They wrote missives directly to fellow Christians in the hope they would understand the Biblical case against human bondage. Sarah’s Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States and Angelina’s Appeal to Christian Women of the South are canon in abolitionist literature. When Sarah was nearly 80, to test the 15th Amendment, the sisters attempted, unsuccessfully, to vote. In 1838, Sarah wrote a paper called "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women." It answered many questions which were asked in a letter by a group of ministers who did not like the sisters because they had stepped out of their "woman's proper sphere". After discovering that their late brother had had three mixed-race sons, whose mother was one of his slaves, they helped the boys get education in the North. Archibald and Francis J. Grimké stayed in the North, Francis becoming a Presbyterian minister, but their younger brother John returned to the South.

At the age of 19, Acland met and was influenced by photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Acland took portraits and landscapes. For example, she took a portrait photograph of the Prime Minister William Gladstone during a visit by him to Oxford. [6] On the death of her mother in 1878, Sarah became her father's housekeeper at the family home in Broad Street until his death in 1900. [5] In 1885, she instigated a cabmen's shelter in the middle of Broad Street, which stood there until 1912.Sarah Angelina ACLAND (1849–1930), Photographer – 10 Park Town, Oxford". UK: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board. 24 July 2016 . Retrieved 19 November 2023. Royal Photographic Society membership records and Members of the Royal Photographic Society 1853-1900 http://rpsmembers.dmu.ac.uk/rps_results.php?mid=2105 Retrieved 5 January 2021. a b c Grimké, Angelina (1837). "Letter to Catharine Beecher". American Political Thought: 510–14. ISBN 978-0-393-92886-0. [ full citation needed]