Brook Farm;: Its members, scholars, and visitors, (National studies in American letters) (edition 1908)

by Lindsay Swift

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The experiment of Brook Farm attracted such visitors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and Charles A. Dana. In characterizations punctuated with humor, author Lindsay Swift's portrait of "this most romantic incident of New England Transcendentalism" examines the farm's members and customs, and how the farm affected the life of everyone who visited.… (more)

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Title:	Brook Farm;: Its members, scholars, and visitors, (National studies in American letters)
Authors:	Lindsay Swift
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The experiment of Brook Farm attracted such visitors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and Charles A. Dana. In characterizations punctuated with humor, author Lindsay Swift's portrait of "this most romantic incident of New England Transcendentalism" examines the farm's members and customs, and how the farm affected the life of everyone who visited.

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