Record of a School

Name: Record of a School
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ISBN: 9781557099594

ISBN-10: 1557099596

ISBN-13: 9781557099594

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Authors: Megan Marshall

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Record of a School is a collection of notes on Bronson Alcott's dialogues with his students at the Temple School of Boston. It was first published in 1835. In 1836, after half of the first printing of 1,000 was destroyed by fire, a second edition, with a new preface, was printed. The book received considerable attention in the New York press, which was unusual considering that it was a small volume about a tiny school. By 1838, the school was shut down after Bronson Alcott had shocked Boston with a subsequent publication about the school. However, the importance of the Temple School, Bronson Alcott, and his methods has been acknowledged by generations of…

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: Applewood Books
Publication date: 6/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.98" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller , and the author of The Peabody Sisters , which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. For more, visit www.meganmarshallauthor.com .