{"product_id":"separate-lives-uncovering-the-hidden-family-of-victorian-professor-mary-rippon-hardcover","title":"Separate Lives: Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSilvia Pettem\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulia Bricklin\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia, Mary Rippon was the first female professor at the University of Colorado and is believed to have been the first woman in the United States 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 known, was both a professional woman \u003ci\u003eand a mother\u003c\/i\u003e in an era when these two roles could not be combined. To keep her job and provide for her family, she hid her husband and child behind a Victorian veil of secrecy that spanned two continents. \u003ci\u003eSeparate Lives \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the full story of the conflicts between this extraordinary woman's public and private lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn January 1878, after several years of education in Germany, France, and Switzerland, the soft-spoken twenty-seven-year-old was welcomed at the newly opened University of Colorado in the then-small frontier town of Boulder. The growth of her lengthy career paralleled the early growth of the university, where she worked her way up from first female faculty member to the university's first female professor, eventually chairing the Department of German Language and Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe truth of Mary's separate lives was not disclosed until nearly a century later, in 1976, when her elderly grandson revealed to a university librarian that he was Mary's descendant. In 2006, Mary received a posthumous honorary degree from the University of Colorado, and in 2020 a scholarship was endowed in her name. Silvia Pettem's carefully researched biography weaves together the story of Mary's private life with her professional career--not to tarnish Mary's well-deserved reputation, but rather to uncover the human side of a woman whose circumstances clashed with the mores of her times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSilvia Pettem\u003c\/b\u003e is a Colorado-based historical researcher, writer, and author of more than twenty books on history, biography, missing and unidentified persons, and true crime. She has a knack for pulling intriguing women out of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeparate Lives: Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon \u003c\/i\u003eis set in the late nineteenth century. Pettem's other nonfiction narratives on women focus on later time periods. \u003ci\u003eIn Search of the Blonde Tigress: The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman \u003c\/i\u003eexposes and expands upon a true crime story from the 1930s, while \u003ci\u003eSomeone's Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe, Updated Edition \u003c\/i\u003efollows a murder investigation (and identification of the victim) from the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePettem lives with her husband and two cats in the mountains west of Boulder, Colorado, where she continues her research and writing. She can be reached through her website, silviapettem.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763402080544,"sku":"9781493079353","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2e2a2941dfb2e0874eec030f295bb619.webp?v=1780234585","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/separate-lives-uncovering-the-hidden-family-of-victorian-professor-mary-rippon-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}