is named and Sophia to the great novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.
of the Transcendentalists Mary was married to the pioneering educator Horace Mann, after whom one in six middle schools in the U.S.
As a subject, the sisters seem too good to pass up: Elizabeth’s 13 West Street bookshop in Boston was, if you will, the Shakespeare and Co. The stories of Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne - the Peabody Sisters of Boston - whose lives interwined with most of the great names of 19th century American literature and culture, have retold in such recent books as Megan Marshall’s The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, Susan Cheever’s American Bloomsbury, and the essay collection Reinventing the Peabody Sisters.
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