Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674246950 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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She taught in her own private schools and was an assistant in Bronson Alcott's Temple School. Yet Peabody has also been one of the most scandalously neglected and caricatured female intellectuals in American history.Bruce Ronda has recaptured Peabody from anecdotal history and even blue-stocking portrayals in film--most recently by Jessica Tandy in Henry James's The Bostonians. In elegant prose it traces the intricate private life and extraordinary career of one of nineteenth-century America's most imp
(Jana Nidiffer History of Education Quarterly) . (Charles Capper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)With Ronda's superb biography, we are given the most comprehensive analysis yet undertaken of her life, thought, and influenceWe are left with a rich intricate portrait of a complex personality, a woman best understood as a 'practical intellectual.' Moreover, A Reformer on Her Own Terms takes up the lives and times closest to Peabody, creating, in many ways, a biography of the Peabody family. In Ronda's sensitive narrative, Peabody finally comes alive as the fascinating R
Ronda is Director of the American Studies Program and Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Colorado State University at Fort Collins. Bruce A.
Stephen Anthony said This book was more like a textbook than I would have liked. This book was more likea textbook than I would have liked. It made a life that was very interesting into very dull reading.