Word: mann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beautiful Sophia was the youngest, reared by her mother as a fragile invalid only to shed her ailment when handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne made her his wife. The second sister, Mary, was the quiet one who married famed Educator Horace Mann-but only after sister Liz had made maidenly passes at Horace which included combing his hair. Liz never did get the men she coveted at various times of her long life, though one suitor seems to have committed suicide when Liz decided that he "was not sound-minded nor well-principled...
Sincere Encyclopedia. Working largely from diaries and letters, Author Tharp fills the married lives of Sophia Hawthorne and Mary Mann with the kind of domestic detail that might warm the hearts of any sewing circle. But whenever she leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which...