The Peabody Sisters
Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
"I can't think of any contemporary biographer who has succeeded as well as Megan Marshall in getting so thoroughly inside the heads of her subjects. There is so much material in this beautifully written book, and she leaves us with a vivid and intimate portrait of each Peabody sister, together with lively renderings of many other individuals who comprised the intelectual and artistic world of early-nineteenth-century New England."
Deborah Pickman Clifford
author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the THe Glory
"Megan Marshall's The Peabody Sisters is a
splendid achievement. It is, to begin with,
an enthralling story, impossible to put down Vivid and well written, it combines domestic, cultural, and intellectual history with the skill of a novelelist in a book that reads, at times, like an American Middle-march. It is the most satisfying group biography I know. It is also the first time anyone has done justice to Elizabeth Peobody or to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, both of whom will unquestionably stand, after Marshall's book, as major figures in American romanticism."
Robert D. Richardson,
author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
and Emerson: The Mind on Fire
