Resources about Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

1. Wilson , Leslie Perrin . "Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Transcendental Activist." Concord Magazine June/July 1999: Web. 22 Jun 2010. <http://www.concordma.com/magazine/junjuly99/peabody.html>
This website is the community website for Concord, Massachusetts. Concord has a historical connection to the Transcendentalists. The main point of this website is to share the history on this online magazine for the historical purposes. It is important to know Elizabeth Palmer Peabody because she was a teacher and educational reformer. Some highlight about her life is she is also the “founder of the kindergarten in America, advocate for Native Americans rights and education and women suffrage, and world peace” (Wilson). As a transcendentalist, she believed that her “efforts could help to transform individual and society” (Wilson). Her writing are critical to her effort because she helped transform education, believing that “education was not an accumulation of facts but rather a life-long process that developed the whole person” (Wilson). This website is helpful for me in combining the author, text, and theme. I give a lot of credit to the website for its contribution to history restoration.

2. Ritchie, Susan . "The Peabody Sisters." Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography . Unitarian Universalist Historical Society, 2009. Web. 22 Jun 2010. <http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/peabodysisters.html>.
This website gives a brief overview on the Peabody sisters, one being Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Peabody is a pioneer in education reform whose philosophy was to “inherent human goodness, …[with] the ideas of self-culture” and to use “intellectual delight and curiosity as the mean of inspiring children to both enjoy learning and also to take on greater moral responsibility. In her book, Record of a School, she contradicts Bronson Alcott’s Converstions. In his book, Alcott discusses the Bible and human sexuality, which Peabody at the time was “anything like sexuality education in schools” (Ritchie). This website gives broad information in a nutshell on Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, mentions her radical experimentalism of her time in the Transcendentalism period.

3. Whiting, Lilian.Boston Days. Madison WI: Little, Brown and Company, 1902. 21, 86-88, 181, 157-159, 445. Print/Web. <http://books.google.com/books?id=Q71iAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Peabody&f=false>.
This book shows a brief history of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, "The Grandmother of Boston", a great philanthropist and think. It discusses who she knew, family history, and her interests. Her involvement in "The Dial" is briefly discussed as well as her close friendship to Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is described as a large women with impaired hearing. She was interested in education, and the transcendental philosophy and lifestyle. She passed away at the age of ninety-four and unmarried.

Relevant Literary Period
Transcendentalism

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Diversity
Experimentalism
Self-Confidence
The American Dream

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