United States 1825 Early nineteenth-century women by no means humbly accepted their lot without complaint despite the social restraints placed on them. Long before the Suffrage Act granted them the right to vote, women had been fighting for their...

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (1803-1861), wife of George Ripley, was a nineteenth-century feminist, a Transcendentalist and later a Catholic. A friend of Margaret Fuller, she was among the few regular women guests of the Transcendental Club in the 1830s,...

Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley is this season's big style flick. Anthony Minghella needs a cigarette. Actually he's in need of a brow-smoothing, stomach-soothing tonic strong enough to calm the nerves of an Oscar-winning director about to unveil his Next Big...

AT 42, Sophia Collier is president of one of the nation's largest families of socially responsible mutual funds, Citizens Funds. The Portsmouth, New Hampshire, group has $700 million in assets. When did you make your first million? When I was in my early...