Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists,
teachers, biographers, editors, and writers or in the more
traditional role of domestic, nurturing women, Elizabeth Peabody,
Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid
nineteenth-century definitions of women's limited realm of
influence. '' Reinventing the Peabody Sisters seeks to redefine
this dynamic trio's relationship to the literary and political
movements of the mid nineteenth century. Previous scholarship has
romanticized, vilified, or altogether erased their influences and
literary productions or viewed these individuals solely in light of
their relationships to other nineteenth-century luminaries,
particularly men---Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace
Mann. This collection underscores that each woman was a creative
force in her own right. Despite their differences and sibling
conflicts, all three sisters thrived in the rarefied---if
economically modest---atmosphere of a childhood household that
glorified intellectual and artistic pursuits. This background
allowed each woman to negotiate the nineteenth-century literary
marketplace and in the process redefine its scope. Elizabeth, Mary,
and Sophia remained linked throughout their lives, encouraging,
complementing, and sometimes challenging each other's endeavors
while also contributing to each other's literary work. The essays
in this collection examine the sisters' confrontations with and
involvement in the intellectual movements and social conflicts of
the nineteenth century, including Transcendentalism, the Civil War,
the role of women, international issues, slavery, Native American
rights, and parenting. Among the most revealingwritings that the
sisters left behind, however, are those which explore the
interlaced relationship that continued throughout their remarkable
lives.
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