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The Peabody sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp; Little, Brown and Company is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Peabody sisters of Salem about?

x, 372 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : 23 cm Biography of three fascinating blue-stockings, central figures in the major literary-educational controversies and developments of the mid-19th century. There were three daughters: Mary, self-effacing, imposed upon, who ultimately married the brilliant Horace Mann. There was Sophia, beautiful, fragile, gifted, who married Hawthorne, as an escape from her doting mother. There was Elizabeth, the indomitable Lizzie Peabody, educator, transcendentalist, crusader, friend of the Concord group, first Froebel kindergartner in America "Sources and acknowledgments": pages 357-358 and index Cuba journey -- "I hear the drums" -- Kennebec kingdom -- Eden in miniature -- New England barbizon -- "Dear Mr. M." -- Cuba journals -- Temple School -- The house in Charter Street -- Year of year -- The shop in West Street -- Wedding at West Street -- Again a West Street wedding -- Paradise lost -- Famous husband -- Congressman's wife -- The end of the shop in West Street -- Parting of the ways -- College President's wife -- Sophia at the courts of kings -- Patterns from the past -- Incendiary concord -- Insatiable heart -- Final flight -- Unconquerable

Author

Louise Hall Tharp; Little, Brown and Company

Publisher

Boston: Little, Brown and Company

Published

1950

Language

EN