There’s an old saying that runs, “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” For Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, the first lady of the American Renaissance, the saying could be changed to “Always a sister-in-law, never a bride.”
While she befriended, inspired, and supported some of the leading men of letters and learning in the community she built, her younger sisters won the hands of two of New England’s most eligible bachelors.
