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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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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.

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  1. Megan Marshall (Author)
 

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