<sod>Mrs. Ripley became a friend of [[Margaret Fuller]] and was one of the women to attend Fuller's first series of "conversations".<ref>Marshall, Megan. ''The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism''. Boston: Mariner Books, 2005: 386–387. ISBN 978-0-618-71169-7</ref> Fuller explained to Ripley her goals: "It is to pass in review the departments of thought and knowledge, and endeavor to place them in due relation to one another in our mind. To systemize thought and give precision and clearness in which our sex are so deficient, chiefly, I think, because they have so few inducements to test and classify what they receive. To ascertain what pursuits are best suited to us".<ref>Rose, Anne C. ''Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830–1850''. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press: 1981: 58–59. ISBN 0-300-02587-4</ref> Ripley was also among the few regular women guests of the male-dominated [[Transcendental Club]] in the 1830s, and she published an essay on women in ''[[The Dial]]''. In July 1841, she ''The Dial'' published a letter from Ripley called "Letter from Zoar", an account of her experience visiting a communistic society of "Separatists" in [[Zoar, Ohio]] in 1837.<ref>Delano, Sterling F. ''Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004: 60. ISBN 0-674-01160-0</ref><eod>
<sod>Mrs. Ripley became a friend of [[Margaret Fuller]] and was one of the women to attend Fuller's first series of "conversations".<ref>Marshall, Megan. ''The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism''. Boston: Mariner Books, 2005: 386–387. ISBN 978-0-618-71169-7</ref> Fuller explained to Ripley her goals: "It is to pass in review the departments of thought and knowledge, and endeavor to place them in due relation to one another in our mind. To systemize thought and give precision and clearness in which our sex are so deficient, chiefly, I think, because they have so few inducements to test and classify what they receive. To ascertain what pursuits are best suited to us".<ref>Rose, Anne C. ''Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830–1850''. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press: 1981: 58–59. ISBN 0-300-02587-4</ref> Ripley was also among the few regular women guests of the male-dominated [[Transcendental Club]] in the 1830s, and she published an essay on women in ''[[The Dial]]''. In July 1841,''The Dial'' published a letter from Ripley called "Letter from Zoar", an account of her experience visiting a communistic society of "Separatists" in [[Zoar, Ohio]] in 1837.<ref>Delano, Sterling F. ''Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004: 60. ISBN 0-674-01160-0</ref><eod>