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

In 1867 she visited

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

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