<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://teacupsandtyrants.com/2018/03/11/forgotten-women-elizabeth-peabody/">Forgotten Women - Elizabeth Peabody</a> (i<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">n 

<a href="https://teacupsandtyrants.com/" title="Teacups and Tyrants-Adele Fasick looks at people, books, and history" rel="home" style="border:0px none;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;margin:0px;outline:0px none currentcolor;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;line-height:72px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:right;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Teacups and Tyrants-Adele Fasick looks at people, books, and history</a>)<br>

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arimo-1,arimo-2,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">In 1838 Elizabeth opened a small circulating library and bookstore in the family home. She knew Ralph Waldo Emerson and many of his friends who were interested in expanding the intellectual horizons of Americans. They were eager to learn about the new ideas being talked about in Europe and Elizabeth’s bookstore offered them a chance to read and discuss European journals and new books. Not only that, Elizabeth also opened a small publishing operation and published several articles and books written by members of the group including several of Nathanial Hawthorne’s early stories.</span>  (links in </font></span><a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/tagged/elizabeth-peabody">http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/tagged/elizabeth-peabody</a>)<br><br><br><div><div><font size="2"> </font>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Lincoln County Library District</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">P.O. Box 2027</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Newport, OR 97365</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Work email</span></i></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt;font-style:normal">: </span></i><a href="mailto:diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org</font></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Home email: </span></i></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></i></a></div>
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<span>“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”―Maya Angelou</span><span></span></h6><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"></span></div></div>
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