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Metropolitan
Playhouse
The American Legacy 220
East Fourth Street ~ New York,
New York 10009
Office: 212 995 8410 ~ Tickets: 212 995 5302 A
2007 Company of the Year ~ nytheatre.com
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Metropolitan
Playhouse proudly presents An Evening with Megan Marshall Reading from her groundbreaking work The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism “the intellectual equivalent of a triple axel” -William Grimes, The New York Times Print this page |
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19th, 2008 8:00 pm |
Suggested
Donation: $10.00 Seating is Limited; Reservations Encouraged 212 995 5302 or tickets@metropolitanplayhouse.org |
| Metropolitan
Playhouse 220 East 4th Street (between Avenues A & B) BY SUBWAY: F/V to Second Avenue, L to First Avenue, 6 to Bleecker, N/R/W to 8th Street BY BUS: M14 A (14th Street to Avenue A), M9 (Avenue B) M15 (1st & 2nd Avenue |
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The Peabody sisters of Concord, MA--Elizabeth, Sophia and Mary--were energetic reformers, devoted supporters of the arts, and progressive activists in education who helped found the American kindergarten movement. They were also central figures in numerous relationships among leaders of the Transcendentalist movement, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Mann, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Twenty years in the research and writing, The Peabody Sisters brings to life these three extraordinary women and the men they loved and inspired. Through her revelatory research and vivid writing, Ms. Marshall crafts a subtle portrait of a devoted sisterhood and enduring love, however tried and conflicted. In 2006, this extraordinary biography won two history prizes --the Francis Parkman Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize--and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and memoir. Radcliffe Fellow Megan Marshall has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Slate among many other publications. She is now at work on a biography of Ebe Hawthorne, sister of Nathaniel. |
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A part of the
Hawthornucopia Festival Two weeks of new works inspired by the life and literature of Nathaniel Hawthorne More Information |
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