Megan Marshall
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Megan Marshall
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Bronts. 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 biography brings to new life the era of creative ferment known as the American Renaissance.
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…
