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Elizabeth Peabody   /ɪlˈɪzəbəθ pˈibˌɑdi/   Listen
Elizabeth Peabody

noun
1.
Educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894).  Synonyms: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Peabody.






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"Elizabeth peabody" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cady Stanton (N. Y.) sent an eloquent tribute to the memory of Lucy Stone, Leland Stanford, George W. Childs, Elizabeth Oakes Smith and Elizabeth Peabody. After reciting the contributions of each in the cause of woman, she closed with these words from The Prince of India in reference to the last great record: "There is thy history and mine, and all of little and great and good and bad that shall befall us in this ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... whose dexterity and temper in debate she frankly admired, whilst his asceticism engaged her reverence. Neither could some marked difference of temperament remove her from the beneficent influences of Miss Elizabeth Peabody, who, by her constitutional hospitality to excellence, whether mental or moral, has made her modest abode for so many years the inevitable resort of studious feet, and a private theatre for the exposition of every question of letters, of philosophy, of ethics, ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... Elizabeth Peabody says we are all free to look out of each other's windows; and so I place mine at the service of all who care to see what its tiny ...
— Mother Stories • Maud Lindsay



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