Nathaniel Hawthorne And his Views on Transcendentalism Based Communities By Christopher Pritchard On April 12, 1841, Nathaniel Hawthorne arrived at the Brook Farm commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, near Boston. The community was set up a mere ten days earlier by Dr. George Ripley, a man of the cloth hailing from nearby Boston. Ripley, a well-educated man graduating first in his class from Harvard in 1823, abandoned his beliefs in the Unitarian Orthodoxy for the new and revolutionary …showed first 75 words of 901 total…

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