The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American romanticism /
"Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes ... Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was ... [a] powerful influence on the great writers of the era--Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them--she also published some of their earliest works ... Mary was a determined and...
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
2005.
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| Sumario: | "Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes ... Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was ... [a] powerful influence on the great writers of the era--Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them--she also published some of their earliest works ... Mary was a determined and passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. Sophia was a painter who won the admiration of the preeminent society artists of the day. She married Nathaniel Hawthorne ..."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | xx, 602 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0395389925 9780395389928 0618711694 (pbk.) 9780618711697 (pbk.) |