In the early 1840s, Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly participated in an experiment in communal living as a member of the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education, a transcendentalist community founded by George Ripley. While providing only indistinct glimpses into the life this community, Hawthorne’s diary entries from this time give us access instead to his own [...]
Brook Farm
Here is an older, somewhat rough recording of George Partridge Bradford’s memoir, Reminiscences of Brook Farm. Bradford is long winded, but offers a much fuller picture of the broad vision, achieved objectives, and daily activities of the Brook Farm community than Hawthorne’s diaries provide. Bradford was a close friend of Emerson’s and an uncelebrated member of [...]
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To Build A Fire, 1908
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Brook Farm
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Hawthorne Diary
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Utopian Socialism/Engels
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Queen Victoria’s diary from July 29, 1838!
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Elizabeth Robins
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Factory Towns
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Isabella Bird in the Rockies
- Elisée Reclus on Anarchism, Vegetarianism and Geography
- Elisée Reclus on Anarchism, Vegetarianism and Geography
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Isabella Bird in the Rockies
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Factory Towns
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Elizabeth Robins
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Queen Victoria’s diary from July 29, 1838!
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Utopian Socialism/Engels
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Hawthorne Diary
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Brook Farm
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To Build A Fire, 1908
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