Brook Farm

“… A society of liberal, intelligent and cultivated persons, whose relations with each other would permit a more wholesome and simple life than can be led amidst the pressures of our competitive institutions.”
-George Ripley, founder of Brook Farm

Part 1: Ideal Turned Reality
Part 2: Adoption of Fourierism

Related Texts:

• George Ripley’s contributions to The Dial
  • No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
    • Brownson’s Writings
  • No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
    • Letter to a Theological Student
• Sophia Ripley’s contributions to The Dial 
  • No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
    • Woman
  • No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
    • Painting and Sculpture
    • Letter
• Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance (1852)