Separate Lives

Unveil the untold story of trailblazing educator Mary Rippon in this updated edition, featuring two new chapters revealing her enduring legacy. A 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 separ