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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: a woman of letters and much more

Peabody's work has been confused with Thoreau's before. For more than a century Thoreau was credited as translator of the 'Lotus Sutra,' the first Buddhist text to appear in English, published in the Transcendentalists' 'The Dial.' But no, it was Peabody who'd discovered a French translation and applied herself to it. Like Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott, Peabody is buried in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, although not on Authors Ridge. See if you can find her. Megan Marshall Belmont The writer is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor in Emerson College's graduate program in creative writing and the author of 'The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism.'