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Elizabeth Peabody did not have this tolerance for sharing.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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She was no longer Elizabeth Peabody; from now on she was Elizabeth Sewall, and she was named after Judge Samuel Sewall.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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Was it the way he conducted discussions around the family dinner table, which often included a few students and Elizabeth Peabody, so that no one was allowed to contradict him?
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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The plan was to have George Ripley and Elizabeth Peabody, as well as Alcott, Thoreau, and Emerson, work together to produce something that would be the voice of their romantic new way of seeing the world.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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The Alcott family moved into a big house on Front Street, and again Elizabeth Peabody moved with them, into a large upstairs room with a view through the trees toward Dorchester.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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Elizabeth Peabody described all this in letters to her sister Mary, and Mary began urging Elizabeth to sever ties with the Alcotts, even offering to take her place at the school and in the house.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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Bronson Alcott, although he pulled himself together to give his Conversations on West Street, had patched up things with Elizabeth Peabody, and had even been made the librarian of a new intellectual club—the Town and Country Club—began to veer toward the emotional extremes that were all too familiar to his family.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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In Salem, where he and the Peabody family were neighbors, Hawthorne had been friends with Elizabeth Peabody, who encouraged him and helped get him published before anyone else had acknowledged him as a serious writer.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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Living with the Alcotts, Elizabeth Peabody discovered, made admiration for the family patriarch harder to sustain.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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Elizabeth Peabody turned the Temple School job over to the pliant Sophia, who was less seasoned in assessing public opinion.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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