Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (1778–1853)

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (1778–1853)

American author and teacher. Name variations: Elizabeth Palmer. Born Elizabeth Palmer in 1778; died in 1853; m. Nathaniel Peabody; children: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804–1894); Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809–1871); Mary Peabody Mann.

Ran a girls' boarding school in Billerica, Massachusetts.

See also Women in World History.

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