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SEPARATE LIVES: THE STORY OF MARY RIPPON [Kindle Edition] was $9.99
Silvia Pettem (Author), Elaine Long (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0091YHC
Publication Date: March 1, 1999
Publisher: The Book Lode, LLC
15 Reviews ★★★★.5
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > History > Americas > United States > 19th Century
As a pioneer woman educator at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Mary Rippon received wide acclaim for her teaching, but, in order to keep her job, she hid her husband and child behind a Victorian curtain of secrecy. Now, for the first time, "Separate Lives: The Story of Mary Rippon" reveals the conflicts between this extraordinary woman's public and private lives.
The following true story follows Mary from the small midwestern farm where she was born to the great centers of culture in Europe. In January of 1878, after years of education in Germany, France, and Switzerland, the soft-spoken twenty-seven-year-old woman was welcomed at the newly opened University of Colorado in the small frontier town of Boulder. The growth of her lengthy career paralleled the growth of the university where she worked her way up from the first female faculty member to the university's first female professor, eventually chairing the department of German language and literature.
Modest and unassuming, "Miss Rippon" taught in the male-dominated world of nineteenth century academia where she shielded her womanly emotions from the public eye. She was a professional woman and a mother in an era when these two roles could not be combined.
Hidden romance and familial responsibilities spanned two continents, and in an age of meager salaries and lengthy sea voyages, she managed to travel to Europe and back eight times. This biography does not tarnish "Miss Rippon's" well-deserved reputation but uncovers the human side of a woman whose circumstances clashed with the mores of her times.
About the Author
Silvia Pettem (www.silviapettem.com) is a longtime historical researcher, newspaper columnist, and author of more than a dozen books. After decades of work for individuals, businesses, and governments, her life took a new turn in 1996, when she stumbled upon the gravestone of a Jane Doe--a murder victim from 1954. A few years later, Pettem applied her research skills to both old-fashioned detective work and the power of the internet by entering into a partnership with her local sheriff and with forensic experts of the Vidocq Society to successfully determine the young woman's identity. Pettem chronicled their work in Someone's Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe. 
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