The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall Paperback Book

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Author: Megan Marshall

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: May 2006

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Historical - U.s.

Retail Price: $19.99

Pages: 602

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Fascinating, insightful, and wholly engrossing, The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history.Though theirs may not be household names, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody had an extraordinary influence on the thought of their day, the movement of intense creative ferment known as American Romanticism. Megan Marshall adeptly brings to life the sisters and the men they loved and inspired, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Mann, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In a work filled with startling revelations, Marshall presents a vivid and nuanced psychological portrait of a sisterhood rife with shifting loyalties yet founded on enduring affection.

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