| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Bruce A. Ronda. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 391. $45.00.

Bruce A. Ronda's excellent biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody will help ensure that Peabody takes her rightful place in American history. Long condescended to and trivialized (in part because of her appearance and weight), Peabody has been relegated to roles as a "fuzzy do-gooder" or a "bluestockinged busybody," significant only because of the important men that she befriended. Ronda's feminist reconstruction of Peabody's life deconstructs those too-easy dismissals of her significance and shows us with great specificity exactly how Peabody managed to embrace both avant-garde ideas and conventional beliefs—to her contemporaries' delight and to posterity's disdain. 1

Ronda frames his biography particularly well, opening with his own personal history and the shifts in scholarship and theory that have allowed scholars like himself to focus on marginalized or under-represented writers and thinkers. Like so many of the best feminist biographers of the past two decades, Ronda rescues his subject from ridicule and obscurity while being particularly sensitive to the gendered spaces of her life. . . .

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