Word: tharpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PEABODY SISTERS OF SALEM (372 pp.)-Louise Hall Tharp-Little, Brown...
Resolute Lizzie dominates The Peabody Sisters of Salem, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, just as she tried to dominate her friends and family. Housewife-Author Louise Hall Tharp, whose previous books, have been juveniles, has carefully apportioned each Peabody girl her due in a three-figure biography that shuttles from sister to sister and becomes in the end a kind of trellis for most of the blooms of the Yankee flowering. Emerson, Alcott, Channing, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau and most of the others pop up in this book with the naturalness of neighbors dropping in to borrow...