Rip·ley (r p l ), George 1802-1880. American minister, scholar, and literary critic. An important figure in the New England Transcendentalist movement, he directed the utopian community at Brook Farm, near Boston (1841-1847), and was the literary critic of the New York Tribune (1849-1880). |
Ripley [ˈrɪplɪ]
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(Biographies / Ripley, George (1802-1880) M, US, SOCIAL SCIENCE: social reformer, RELIGION: transcendentalist) George. 1802-80, US social reformer and transcendentalist: founder of the Brook Farm experiment in communal living in Massachusetts (1841)
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