Place: Elizabeth Peabody Bookstore
Address: 13-15 West Street
Neighborhood: Downtown
Continuing my inspection of Downtown Boston on December 12, 2012, I walked into West Street. On this small street is the Elizabeth Peabody Bookstore. This place is part of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
To visit the Elizabeth Peabody Bookstore, ride the Green Line to Park Street or the Orange Line or Red Line to Downtown Crossing.
"Elizabeth Peabody, the first woman publisher in Boston, maintained a home and business here in the 1840s. Her bookshop was the first in the city to offer works by foreign authors, and she published the periodical The Dial with Ralph Waldo Emerson. The shop was a meeting place for transcendentalists and intellectuals including Bronson Alcott, William Ellery Channing and Theodore Parker. Journalist Margaret Fuller gave lectures here, called Conversations, that are significant in the early history of American feminism."
To learn more about the Elizabeth Peabody Bookstore:
http://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/13-15_West_Street_Study_Report_tcm3-31148.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peabody
