Contents
Introduction: Reinventing the Peabody Sisters
1. Conversations, Dialectic Discourse, andSelf-Representations
This Is His—This Is My Mystery: The Common Journal of Nathanieland Sophia Hawthorne, 1842–1843
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the “Art” of Conversation
Declaration and Deference: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Mary PeabodyMann, and the Complex Rhetoric of Mediation
2. Politics on the Home Front
At the Crisis of Our Fate: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’s Civil WarCorrespondence
Elizabeth Peabody on the “Temperament of the Colored Classes”:African Americans, Progressive History, and Education in a DemocraticSystem
Like One Happy Family: Mary Peabody Mann’s Method for InfluencingReform
Authorizing Sarah Winnemucca? Elizabeth Peabody and MaryPeabody Mann
3. Perspectives from Abroad
Watery Angels: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’s Artistic Argument inNotes in England and Italy
Should Not These Things Be Known? Mary Mann’s Juanita and theLimits of Domesticity
Queen of All I Surveyed: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’s “Cuba Journal”and the Imperial Gaze
Against the Cuba Guide: The “Cuba Journal,” Juanita, and TravelWriting
4.Transcendental Reconfigurations
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s Problematic Feminism and the Feminizationof Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism for Children: Mary Peabody Mann’s The FlowerPeople
Elizabeth Peabody and the Fate of Transcendentalism
Epilogue: The Peabody Sisters as Sisters
Contributors
Index