This project investigates the intersections of literature, education, and the marketplace in antebellum New England. The idea of authorship was at an intermediate stage, shifting between an older notion of writing as a largely amateur enterprise undertaken by the gentlemanly cla…
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Within the past few years, the women of the American Renaissance have been written back into history. However, scholarship concerning Eastern sacred texts and female Transcendentalists remains limited and continues to exist on the periphery of the study of American "orientalism,…
Reinventing the Peabody sisters
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Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists, teachers, biographers, editors, and writers or in the more traditional role of domestic, nurturing women, Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid nineteenth-century definition…