Images Related to Brook Farm and The Blithedale Romance

Brook Farm
People Involved with Brook Farm
The Blithedale Romance: The Drowning of Martha Hunt

Brook Farm

	Brook Farm, painting by Josiah Wolcott, 1844  The Pilgrim House is on the left; the Cottage (or "Margaret Fuller Cottage") is second building from left on hill; the Aerie is on the highest hill and is where Ripley and other lived. The Farmhouse was the two -and -a- half story white clapboard building with an ell at the rear of the house that housed the kitchen. Also called "the Hive," this was where Hawthorne lived when he was at Brook Farm. A large barn to the left of the farm stood next to a brook and housed horses and cattle. According to Sterling F. Delano, the entrance was not where Wolcott has placed it but rather at the break in the low stone wall. On October 11, 1841 George Ripley purchased the Ellis Farm which included a farmhouse with barn and outbuildings. This farmhouse, which was already serving as the Brook Farm school, began to be called "The Nest" by the Brook Farmers. Delano believes that Wolcott painted this scene before the foundation of the Phalanstery was built, not after it burned down, as there is no workshop in the scene. (courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society)
	Brook Farm with Rainbow, painting by Josiah Wolcott, 1845  (courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society)
	Brook Farm, redrawn from a sketch of the period of the community from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897  (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	Brook Farm, 1846 from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman, Boston: Arena Publishing, 1894. (courtesy of The Boston Public Library.)
	The Buildings at Brook Farm in 1897 from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897  (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	The Margaret Fuller Cottage and View of the Farm from the Cottage from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897 (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897 The Hive aka "The Nest" (photography by Terri Whitney)
	Drawing of section of Brook Farm from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897 from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897 (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	The Brook at Brook Farm from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897  (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	Brook Farm in 1897 from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897  (photography by Terri Whitney)
	Foundation of Pilgrim House, dwelling of Marianne Dwight, photo taken at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, MA in July, 2008  (photography by Terri Whitney)
	Map of Utopian Societies  (courtesy of Sterling F. Delano)
	Map of Utopian Societies (close-up)  (courtesy of Sterling F. Delano)

People Involved with Brook Farm

	George Ripley from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897   (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	John S. Dwight from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897 from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897 (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1840 First oil painting of Hawthorne; hangs in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. According to Rita Gollin the portrait may have been commissioned by Hawthorne's uncle, Robert Manning (courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Gift of Professor Richard C. Manning, Acc#121459)
	from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897  (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	John P. Codman from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897  (courtesy of Terri Whitney)
	Father Isaac Hecker, a student at Brook Farm who eventually became well known  from "Brook Farm" by George Willis Cooke in The New England Magazine, December, 1897 (courtesy of Terri Whitney)

The Blithedale Romance: The Drowning of Martha Hunt

Concord River from rear of Old Manse, facing Old North Bridge; purple bloom is loosestrife (July, 2008) Hawthorne assisted in the search for the body of Martha Hunt in the Concord River. He wrote about the experience in his journal and used the passage almost verbatim in describing the search for Zenobia's body in The Blithedale Romance (photography by Terri Whitney)