Josephine Preston Peabody scrapbooks, 1888-1901.

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Josephine Preston Peabody scrapbooks, 1888-1901.

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2 scrapbooks primarily of clippings mounted in albums. Concern Peabody's life and activities and include images of her, programs and tickets, and other memorabilia. Second album is titled "A tale of a book or two" and mostly pertains to her writing, notably The Wayfarers, Fortune and men's eyes, and Marlowe.

2 v. in 1 box (.3 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922

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Peabody was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the death of her father in 1882, the family moved to Dorchester, Mass. She attended Latin School in Boston, and was a special student at Radcliffe College, 1894-1896. She published fourteen volumes of poems and verse plays, and lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College, 1901-1903. A pacifist and feminist, she joined the Fabian Society in 1909, and wrote a prose play, Portrait of Mrs. W. (Mary Wollstonecraft). She died in Cambridge, Mass. For ...