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ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY (1804-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 4 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELIZABETH See also:PALMER See also:PEABODY (1804-1894)  , See also:American See also:Danvers was changed to See also:Peabody, in See also:honour of See also:George Peabody. educationist, was See also:born at Billerica, See also:Massachusetts, on the ,6th See Old Naumkeag (See also:Salem, 1877), by C . H . Webber and W . H. of May 1804 . See also:Early in See also:life she was assistant in A . Bronson Nevins . See also:Alcott's school in See also:Boston, See also:Mass., the best See also:account of which is See also:PEACE, a See also:river of western See also:Canada . It rises in the Rocky probably her See also:Record of Mr Alcott's School (1835) . She had been Mountains near 55° N., and breaking through the mountains, instructed in See also:Greek by See also:Emerson at See also:Concord when she was flows N.E. into Slave River, near See also:lake See also:Athabasca . The See also:district eighteen years old . She became interested in the educational between 56° 40' and 6o° N., and between 112° W. and the Rocky methods of See also:Froebel, and in 1860 opened in Boston a small school Mountains is usually known as the Peace River district . resembling a See also:kindergarten .

In 1867 she visited See also:

Germany for PEACE (See also:Lat. See also:pax; Fr. paix; Ger . Friede), the contrary of the purpose of studying Froebel's methods . It was largely See also:war, conflict or turmoil, and the See also:condition which follows their through her efforts that the first public kindergarten in the cessation . Its sense in See also:international See also:law is the condition of See also:United States was established in Boston in 1870 . She died at not being at war . The word is also used as an abridgment for See also:Jamaica See also:Plain, Boston, on the 3rd of See also:January 1894 . She was a treaty of peace, in such cases as the Peace of See also:Utrecht (1713) the See also:sister-in-law of Nathaniel See also:Hawthorne and of See also:Horace See also:Mann. and the Peace of See also:Amiens (1802) . Among her publications are: Kindergarten in See also:Italy (1872); Introduction.—Peace until quite recently was merely the Reminiscences of See also:William See also:Ellery See also:Channing (1880); Lectures in the See also:political condition which prevailed in the intervals between Training See also:Schools for Kindergartners (1888) ; and Last Evening with See also:wars . It was a purely negative condition .

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