The Peabody Sisters
Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Pulitzer Prize Finalist: A stunning work of biography about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times). Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. 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 the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth Peabody, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire influence on the great writers of the era-Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them-who al…
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- ISBN: 978-0-547-34875-9
- EAN: 9780547348759
- Produktnummer: 31919882
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 624 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'673 KB
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Megan Marshall is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, awarded for her work on Margaret Fuller, and the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is a Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson. For more, visit www.meganmarshallauthor.com.
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