[Boston]: Black & Co., (1876).
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Unbound. Albumen carte de visite of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Measuring 2½" x 4¼". Corners very slightly clipped, not affecting the image, probably for inclusion in an album, slightly faded, near fine. Inscribed on the back to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hinckley (whose name appears frequently in *History of Woman Suffrage* by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, et al.) with a sentiment:
" 'With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, and the heat
of the long day, and wish 'twere done;
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern'.
Elizabeth P. Peabody - April 1876."
One of the famous Peabody Sisters (her sister Sophia was an artist and the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, her sister Mary was an author and wife of the father of American public education, Horace Mann), Elizabeth Peabody was an important educator, in 1860 opening the first English-language kindergarten in the U.S. Educated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1834-35, she taught alongside A. Bronson Alcott at his experimental Temple School, in 1843-45 she was the business manager of the primary Transcendentalist journal *The Dial*, and also ran an important bookstore and lending library in Boston from approximately 1839-1852, which became a salon for female authors and activists. She also published numerous books.
A famous image of Peabody and very nicely Inscribed to another known Suffragist.
Item #438158
