Ripley, Sophia (1803–1861)
Ripley, Sophia (1803–1861)
American educator and Transcendentalist. Born Sophia Willard Dana, July 6, 1803, in Cambridge, MA; died Feb 4, 1861; dau. of Francis and Sophia (Willard) Dana; cousin of Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before the Mast; m. George Ripley (1802–1880, leading Transcendentalist), Aug 1827; no children.
A close friend of Margaret Fuller, was the 1st to touch on the "women's question" in her article "Woman," in the Dial (1841), complaining that women lose themselves in marriage; was a leading spirit in developing with husband their utopian Brook Farm, a model community based on the ideals of Christianity and Transcendentalism.
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