Career
Grierson returned to Northampton, Massachusetts in 1930, and taught philosophy at Smith College until 1936. In 1940, she became the college archivist, and in 1942, she also became the executive secretary of the Friends of the Smith College Library. in 1942, she became the first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at the college. Until her retirement in 1965, Grierson simultaneously held the three positions.
She was awarded the Smith College Medal in 1968.
Grierson died of cancer in 1997 in Leeds, Massachusetts.
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