Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was a notable American educator and publisher. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dial (Transcendentalist journal) | 1842 | 1843 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1832/02/00 | Elizabeth Peabody finds a room at Clarke's Place on Somerset Court (lost) where she studies history using Jared Sparks' immense and choice library. | Home Locale | Rebecca Clarke's Place | ||||
| 1837/08/00 | Invited by Elizabeth Peabody, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his sisters pay a visit to the Peabody family. Elizabeth runs upstairs to Sophia and says, "You must come down! You must come down! He's handsomer then Lord Byron!" | Life | Grimshawe-Peabody House, Salem | Salem, MA | Marriage of Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1840/04/00 | Elizabeth Peabody plans for a foreign bookstore and circulating library to promote discourse within Boston's intellectual community with a focus on literature that inspired the Transcendentalists. | Work | |||||
| 1840/08/00 | Without a mercantile background, Elizabeth opens her bookstore during an era of intense competition between the city's booksellers and publishers centered on Washington St, School St and Cornhill. Peabody teaches herself bookkeeping. | Work | Peabody Residence and Book Room | Boston | |||
| 1843/00/00 | Ralph Waldo Emerson tutors Elizabeth Palmer Peabody in Greek. | Education | |||||
| 1852/00/00 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's West Street Bookstore closes. | Home | Peabody Residence and Book Room | Boston |
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