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At Brook Farm, as in other communities, physical labor was perceived as a condition of mental well-being and health. Brook Farm was one of at least 80 communal experiments active in the United States in the 1840s, though it was the first to be secular. [10] Ripley believed his experiment would be a model for the rest of society.
The Blithedale Romance is a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1852. It is the third major "romance", as he called the form.Its setting is a utopian socialist farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her aunts, one stern and one kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding.
Marianne Dwight Orvis (April 4, 1816 – December 12, 1901) was an American letter writer and painter. Her letters, later published in Letters from Brook Farm, 1844-1847 (1928) provide a valuable account of daily life on the utopian community of Brook Farm.
Greeley had been a proponent of Brook Farm's conversion to Fourierism. [56] Ripley started his role with the Tribune at $12 a week and, at this wage, was not able to pay off the debt of Brook Farm until 1862. [54] As a critic, he believed in high moral standards for literature but offered good-natured praise in the majority of his reviews. [57]
Brook Farm collapsed financially in 1847, but Dwight set up a cooperative house in Boston and began a career in musical journalism. He married singer Mary Bullard (daughter of Silas Bullard and Mary Ann Barrett) on February 11, 1851. [ 1 ]
Minot Pratt was born on January 8, 1805, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Bela Pratt (1777-1843), a stonemason, and his wife, Sophia (Lyon) Pratt (1780-1841). [3] [4] As a teenager Minot journeyed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to learn the printing trade, and then to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became the printer for The Christian Register in 1827. [5]
The title of the poem that the volume is named by has been called very significant. Where the poem takes place (Derry, New Hampshire), due to its location near the coast, all rivers flow towards the ocean except for West Running Brook (a real brook), which goes westward making itself unique. In the same way, the poet trusts himself to go by ...