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The Peabody Sisters

The Peabody Sisters . Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Eldest of the 3 sisters Knew 10 languages, including Latin and Greek Lifetime champion of education Opened various schools over the years Opened the West Street Bookstore, a gathering place for social reformers

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The Peabody Sisters

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  1. The Peabody Sisters Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia

  2. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody • Eldest of the 3 sisters • Knew 10 languages, including Latin and Greek • Lifetime champion of education • Opened various schools over the years • Opened the West Street Bookstore, a gathering place for social reformers • Published the transcendental journal, The Dial

  3. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody • Was friends with all the leading educational and literary figures of the time: • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Horace Mann • Bronson Alcott • Margaret Fuller • Henry David Thoreau

  4. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody • Publications • Record of a School Exemplifying the Principals and Methods of Moral Culture • Moral Culture of Infancy and Kindergarten Guide • Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing

  5. Mary Tyler Peabody Mann • The second eldest of the 3 sisters • Opened schools with both Elizabeth and with Sophia • Took ailing Sophia on an extended trip to Cuba • Married Horace Mann and had 3 sons

  6. Mary Tyler Peabody Mann • Publications • Christianity in the Kitchen • Juanita: A Romance of a Real Life in Cuba Fifty Years Ago • Life of Horace Mann

  7. Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne • Youngest of the 3 sisters • Suffered debilitating migraines through much of her life • Studied art in Boston • Taught art at a school she opened with sister, Mary • Married Nathaniel Hawthorne and had 3 children

  8. Works Cited and Consulted • “Elizabeth Peabody: Biography-Adulthood.” Colonial.net. 14 July 2008. <http://www.colonial.net/alcottweb/neighborhood/NER peabodyba.html> • Marshall, Megan. “The Spirit of the Letter.” Slate.com. 17 May 2005. 14 July 2008. <http://www.slate.com/id/2118582/> • Ritchie, Susan. “The Peabody Sisters.” Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. 14 July 2008. <http://www.25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/ articles/peabodysisters.html>

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