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  1. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.

  2. May 12, 2024 · Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (born May 16, 1804, Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.—died January 3, 1894, Jamaica Plain [now part of Boston], Massachusetts) was an American educator and participant in the Transcendentalist movement, who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States.

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  3. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, (May 16, 1804-January 3, 1894) was a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system in the United States, and an advocate of Native American rights to education. She was a prominent figure within the Transcendentalism Movement publishing their literary journal, The Dial, in 1842 and 1843.

  4. Courtesy of Concord Magazine. Greatly esteemed in the 1800s as part of the intellectual elite in Boston—a member of the Transcendentalist inner circle, a prolific writer, and a leading educator—Elizabeth Palmer Peabody is best known today for promoting the kindergarten movement in the United States. Peabody’s bonds with Unitarian minister ...

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  6. Feb 16, 2018 · Elizabeth Peabody. to hold salons for women; first to translate portions of the Buddhist text Lotus Sutra from French into English, in 1843; first to publish, in 1849, her friend Henry David Thoreau’s essay “On Civil Disobedience”; and, in 1860, the first proprietor in Boston of kindergartens, which quickly became a nationwide phenomenon.

  7. May 21, 2018 · Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894), an American educator, author, and prominent member of the New England intellectual community, promoted the new kindergarten movement in the United States. Elizabeth Peabody was born in Billerica, Mass., on May 16, 1804.

  8. Nov 1, 2020 · Known for: role in Transcendentalism; bookshop owner, publisher; promoter of kindergarten movement; activist for women's and Native American rights; older sister of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and Mary Peabody Mann. Occupation: writer, educator, publisher. Dates: May 16, 1804, to January 3, 1894.

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