The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley

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A recent of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and other New England Renaissance figures, Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (1793-1867) is in large part unknown to today’s readers. Despite the fact that she left no published works, Sarah is often mentioned in letters and journals written by her fellow intellectuals. She used to be a self-educated classical scholar who used to be well versed in languages and the sciences, ran a boarding school with her Unitarian minister husband to prepare boys for Harvard College, and raised seven children. Legend has it that she concurrently rocked a cradle, shelled peas, heard one boy recite his Latin and another, his Greek.

In this first biography of the remarkable Mrs. Ripley, Joan W. Goodwin draws on both Sarah’s letters and the writings of her contemporaries to paint as full a picture as imaginable of a compelling figure known until now only as a literary footnote. Goodwin reveals the inner drama of a woman’s lonely struggle to reconcile the liberal Christian world view with her own increasing skepticism, and her traditional domestic role with the pursuit of intellectual attainments. The writer’s skillful presentation of primary materials allows Sarah to speak to the reader in her own voice, particularly through her correspondence with Mary Moody Emerson and Abigail Allyn Francis, lending insight into the anguish that shaped much of her life.

This is an interesting story so one can appeal to historians and general readers alike.

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