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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism Paperback - 2006
by Megan Marshall
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the "American Brontes." The story of these remarkable sisters--and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day--is told in Marshall's monumental biography.
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Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters — and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day — has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire thinker. A powerful influence on the great writers of the era — Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them — she also published some of their earliest works. It was Elizabeth who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson's individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Mary was a determined and passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. The frail Sophia was a painter who won the admiration of the preeminent society artists of the day. She married Nathaniel Hawthorne — but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Marshall focuses on the moment when the Peabody sisters made their indelible mark on history. Her unprecedented research into these lives uncovered thousands of letters never read before as well as other previously unmined original sources. The Peabody Sisters casts new light on a legendary American era. Its publication is destined to become an event in American biography.
This book is highly recommended for students and reading groups interested in American history, American literature, and women's studies. It is a wonderful look into 19th-century life.
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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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- Title The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
- Author Megan Marshall
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 624
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-05-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618711697 / 0618711694
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.06 x 1.5 in (22.91 x 15.39 x 3.81 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Salem (Mass.), United States - Intellectual life - 19th
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- New York Times, 07/02/2006, Page 20
- New Yorker (The), 04/01/2013, Page 75
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