Mary Tyler Peabody Mann [SEP] place of death
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (November 16, 1806, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts – February 11, 1887, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) was a teacher, author, mother, and wife of Horace Mann, American education reformer and politician.
Early life.
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann was the daughter of Nathaniel Peabody and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Her sisters were Elizabeth Peabody, reformer, educator, and pioneer in establishing kindergarten, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, painter and wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her
“The story is fiction; but the principal characters and the most important incidents are real—it was this that made the author keep back the book from publication till all were dead….It was the merest accident that the work was not published before my sister’s death, as she so earnestly desired it should be.”
Death.
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann died February 11, 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Works.
- "The Flower People: Being an Account of the Flowers by Themselves