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- Record of Mr. Alcott's school -- free online book
Source: Univ. of Michigan
Author: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Country: United States
- "Record of Mr. Alcott's school, exemplifying the principles and methods of moral culture" by Peabody. In May 1849, Peabody's Transcendentalist periodical "Aesthetic Papers" introduced Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience." She is one of the many fascinating women who were part of Ralph Waldo Emerson's circle.
- Harriet Martineau's Autobiography -- free online book
Source: Indiana Univ.
Author: Harriet Martineau, ed. Maria Weston Chapman
Country: United States
- Edited by Maria Weston Chapman. Martineau and Chapman helped to transmit British classical liberalism to America through "Harriet Martineau's Autobiography" (J.R. Osgood; Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1877).
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