| Front | brook farm |
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| Back | a cooperative reform community, founded in 1841 by George Ripley and other transcendentalists on a farm in Massachusetts Brook farm's aim was to simplify and purify economic relations by retreating from an increasingly commercial society and working the farm together to achieve a simplified, near-subsistence existence which would have time for intellectual and spiritual self-improvement. Margaret Fuller, r Emerson, William Channing, Theodore Parker, Orestes Brownson, Hawthorne who based his novel , The Blithedale Romance, on his Brook farm experience two periodical , the phalanx 1843-5 and the Harbinger 1845-9 the community disbanded in 1847 |
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