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      Sophia Amelia Peabody

      Sophia Amelia Peabody

      1809-1871

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      Sophia Amelia Peabody was born in Salem. She had two older sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, and three younger brothers. Mary was the wife of Horace Mann, the great education reformer and first president of Antioch College, and Elizabeth was famous for her bookshop in Boston on West Street that was the intellectual life of Boston. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ellery Channing and Margaret Fuller could be found there.) Sophia was very much in love with her literary husband, Nathaniel Hawthorne; it was “love at first sight.”