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Description edit
Fascinating, insightful, and wholly engrossing, The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history.Though theirs may not be household names, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody had an extraordinary influence on the thought of their day, the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Elizabeth Peabody: Add a description of this character.
- Mary Peabody
- Sophia Peabody
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Horace Mann
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Walter Channing
- Eliza Palmer
- George Ripley
- Alcott
- Royall Tyler
- Margaret Fuller
- Theodore Parker
- Burroughs
- Mary Cranch
- Hallowell
- Joseph Pearse Palmer
- Nathaniel Peabody
- Betsey Palmer
- Charles
- Peabodys
- Howe
- Mrs. Clarke
- Graeter
- Brown
- Lyman Buckminster
- Hildebrand
- Reverend Channing
- Chester Harding
- Lydia
- Mrs. Gardiner
- William
Setting & Locations edit
- Boston
- Salem
- New England
- Wellington
- Cuba
- Washington Allston
- Brookline
- Concord
- Cambridgeport
- Harvard
- Maine
- Charlotte
- Massachusetts
- America
- Europe
- West Street
- Watertown
- Dedham
- Italy
- Billerica
- Vermont
- Newport
- Brook Farm
- Framingham
- Germantown
- New York
- Andover
- Alcotes
- Havana
- United States
- Friendship Hall
- Paris
- New Bedford
- Heaven
- London
- Hunt
- Rome
- Philadelphia
- France
- Braintree
- Charter Street
- Atlantic
- Roxbury
- Oakland
- Rhode Island
- Sturgis
First Sentence edit
ASIDE FROM ONE STIFFLY POSED SILHOUETTE, THE ONLY SURVIVING likeness of Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody is a small pencil drawing Sophia made in one of her sketchbooks in the early 1830s.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 17 of 113 in Book Smart Reading List. (community list)
Preceded by W. E. B. Du Bois, and followed by The Five of Hearts.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Megan Marshall (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0395389925
Page Count: 624
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0395389925
Page Count: 624
Awards edit
- Francis Parkman Prize (2006)
- Mark Lynton History Prize (2006)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 974.4030922
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