Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (750 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674246950 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet Peabody has also been one of the most scandalously neglected and caricatured female intellectuals in American history.Bruce Ronda has recaptured Peabody from anecdotal history and even blue-stocking portrayals in film--most recently by Jessica Tandy in Henry James's The Bostonians. In her contacts with Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendental circle in the 1830s, and as publisher of the famous Dial and other imprints, she took a mediating position once more, claiming the need for historical knowledge to balance the movement's stress on individual intuition. She was, as Theodore Parker described her, the Boswell of her age.. In elegant prose it traces the intricate private life and extraordinary career of one of nineteenth-century America's most important Transcendental writers and educational reformers. This is the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, one of the three notable Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts, and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann. She taught in her own private schools and was an assistant in Bronson Alcott's Temple School. Peabody was a reformer devoted to education in the broadest, and yet most practical, senses. She champio
This book was more like a textbook than I would have liked This book was more likea textbook than I would have liked. It made a life that was very interesting into very dull reading.
(Jana Nidiffer History of Education Quarterly) . In fact, what makes this biography so appealing is the nature of those myriad forces which Ronda explores admirably…Ronda's careful mining of Peabody's correspondences and the papers of her contemporaries provides intimate details about these individuals…Ronda's 'insider's' glimpse into the transcendentalist movement is captivating and the part of his larger depiction of the role of religion and philosophy in the lives of the educated, white, middle class…Ronda's focus was Peabody's own struggle with faith and theology, especially the role played by emotion, but the result is an absorbing account of the struggles within and between the adherents of the various philosophi
. Ronda is Director of the American Studies Program and Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Colorado State University at Fort Collins. Bruce A