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Websites Related to Hawthorne at Brook Farm

Brook Farm with Rainbow, painting by Josiah Wolcott, 1845

Brook Farm with Rainbow, painting by Josiah Wolcott, 1845 (courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society)

Unitarian Universalist Historical Society site on Brook Farm

American Transcendentalism Web on history of Brook Farm; Virginia Commonwealth University site

Article on Brook Farm by William F. Hennessey, Recording Secretary of the West Roxbury Historical Society

Brook Farm Historic Site; Newton Conservators

Article by Edmund A. Schofield on Thoreau’s Visit to Brook Farm in December, 1843

New York Times article from March 17, 1900 entitled “A Girl of Sixteen at Brook Farm” about a paper that appeared in the Atlantic written by Mrs. Ora Gannett Sedgwick describing her years at Brook Farm, which include recollections of Hawthorne

New York Times article from February 10, 1900 on the book by Lindsay Swift on Brook Farm

Beinecke Library at Yale site on Brook Farm and The Blithedale Romance

MassMoments Website on Brook Farm