The Peabody Sisters
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The History of Literature #461 — The Peabody Sisters (with Megan Marshall)
Pulitzer-Prize-winning literary biographer Megan Marshall joins Jacke to discuss the book that was twenty years in the making: The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited the American Renaissance. This “stunning work of biography,” as the New York Times labeled it, tells the story of Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody, the nineteenth-century New England women who made intellectual history. Continue reading
