Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes.
It is a wonderful look into 19th-century life..
This book is highly recommended for students and reading groups interested in American history, American literature, and women\'s studies.
Its publication is destined to become an event in American biography.
The Peabody Sisters casts new light on a legendary American era.
Her unprecedented research into these lives uncovered thousands of letters never read before as well as other previously unmined original sources.
Marshall focuses on the moment when the Peabody sisters made their indelible mark on history.
She married Nathaniel Hawthorne -- but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray.
The frail Sophia was a painter who won the admiration of the preeminent society artists of the day.
Mary was a determined and passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann.
It was Elizabeth who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson\'s individualism and toward a greater connection to others.
A powerful influence on the great writers of the era -- Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them -- she also published some of their earliest works.
Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire thinker.
Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall\'s monumental biograpy brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life.
The story of these remarkable sisters -- and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day -- has never before been fully told.
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes
