Elizabeth Peabody

Elizabeth Peabody
Elizabeth Peabody
Born	May 16, 1804; Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	January 3, 1894 (aged 89); Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, U.S.
Burial place	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Education	Tutored in Greek by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Occupation(s)	Teacher, schoolmistress, writer, editor, and publisher
Parents	Nathaniel Peabody; Elizabeth "Eliza" Palmer;
Relatives	Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (sister); Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (sister);

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.

With a grounding in history and literature and a reading knowledge of ten languages, in 1840, she also opened a bookstore that held Margaret Fuller's "Conversations". She published books from Nathaniel Hawthorne and others in addition to the periodicals The Dial and Æsthetic Papers. She was an advocate of antislavery and of Transcendentalism.

Peabody also led efforts for the rights of the Paiute Indians. She was the first known translator into English of the Buddhist scripture the Lotus Sutra, translating a chapter from its French translation in 1844. It was the first English version of any Buddhist scripture.

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