1980; The American Past, Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., New York; large hardbound with dust jacket and external slipcase; book in very good condition with unmarked pages (appears unread); dust jacket very good; slipcase very good; a wonderful collectors edition.
 
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Biography of three fascinating blue-stockings, central figures in the major literary-educational controversies and developments of the mid-19th century. There were three daughters: Mary, self-effacing, imposed upon, who ultimately married the brilliant Horace Mann. There was Sophia, beautiful, fragile, gifted, who married Hawthorne, as an escape from her doting mother. There was Elizabeth, the indomitable Lizzie Peabody, educator, transcendentalist, crusader, friend of the Concord group, first Froebel kindergartner in America.