Sophia Amelia Peabody (1809–1871) was a painter and illustrator born in Salem, Massachusetts. She also published her journals and various articles. On July 9, 1842, she married Nathaniel Hawthorne, a marriage that would be happy for both of them. They had three children: Una, Julian, and Rose.
After SophiaPeabody was married and had children of her own, she often used to amuse them with these and similar wondrous tales of their maternal lineage, which had just sufficient possibility of truth in them to render them captivating to a child's imagination.
The relations of SophiaPeabody and her mother were always of the tenderest and most intimate description; and one of the former's letters, written towards the close of the latter's life, bears eloquent and moving testimony to this fact.
Sophia was intensely interested, and liked to have in the recitations the part of comparing the heroes, that occurs in Plutarch, and summing up their heroic deeds, as occurs constantly in Rollins; and I remember with what enthusiasm she would do this.
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