""George Ripley"" by Octavius Brooks Frothingham is a biography of one of the most prominent transcendentalists of the 19th century, George Ripley. The book covers Ripley's life from his childhood in Massachusetts to his years as a Unitarian minister and his eventual involvement in the transcendentalist movement. Frothingham explores Ripley's philosophical beliefs, his relationships with other transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret...