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utahmomreads's review against another edition
5.0
I preordered this book and picked it up from the book store the minute it arrived. I even paid full price. I loved it. Loved it. The Peabody sisters were fascinating women and led amazing lives. Marshall tells their story beautifully.
lksimmonsauthor's review against another edition
5.0
Exceptional story of three exceptional women. Bravo
jerihurd's review against another edition
4.0
Compelling read of three of the most influential sisters you never heard of. I HAD heard of Sophia Peabody, but only through my love of Hawthorne. Her ground-breaking older sister, a key figure in the transcendalist movement, second only to Margaret Fuller, and a woman who almost single-handedly started the kingergarten movement in the States, remains a shadowy historical figure. Such is the lot of women, less now than then, to be the power behind greatness, seldom greatness itself. Or rather, they may be great, but who remembers?
kerryanndunn's review against another edition
5.0
Finished this book and Kris, Jen, Meg and I had a very successful first book club meeting about it! This book was ultimately a very intimate and fascinating look at Boston area America during the birth of Transcendentalism and women's role in that birth. These three women, each with a distinct personality, did so much with their lives in a time when women usually only did one thing (get married and have babies) that it puts us modern women to shame. And what a circle they were involved in: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace Mann, William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Thoreau, Emerson - they were there for it all! If you have any interest in this time period whatsoever I highly recommend this book!