Sophia Peabody Hawthorne

“A critical piece of scholarship on American women artists and women’s contributions to transcendentalism, this book remains as relevant today as when it was first published.” ~Kate Culkin, author of Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy

“Patricia Dunlavy Valenti’s first volume of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life challenges the critical, cultural, and familial constructions of the wife of one of America’s greatest authors, while at the same time challenging our concept of biography itself.” ~Andrea Knutson, associate professor, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, Oakland University