Separate Lives - Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon

Mary Rippon was a pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia. As the first female professor at the University of Colorado, she was likely the first woman in the U.S. to teach at a state university. Mary received wide acclaim for her teaching, but Victorian society forced her to lead two very separate lives. "Miss Rippon," as she was always called, was both a professional woman and a mother in an era when these two roles could not be combined. In order to keep her job, she hid her husband and child behind a Victorian veil of secrecy that spanned two continents. Now, for the first time, the full story of the conflicts between this extraordinary woman's public and private lives is revealed.

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By Silvia Pettem - Foreword by Julia Bricklin

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• Authors: Silvia Pettem, Pettem Silvia
• Assisted by: Julia Bricklin (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9781493079353
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-7935-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; EDUCATION / General, Education, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states