<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3FTu7W_0wCtDk9d00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3FTu7W_0wCtDk9d00" width="1000" height="600" ></figure>Host Diana Korte speaks with author and historian Silvia Pettem, who has published more than 20 books and lives with her husband and two cats in the mountains west of Boulder.Her newest title, “SEPARATE LIVES”, is the true story of Mary Rippon, a pioneer woman educator who lived and worked in the male-dominated world of 19th century academia at the University of Colorado in the then small frontier town of Boulder.Mary received wide acclaim for her teaching and is believed to be the first US woman to teach at a state university. But the Victorian social mores in 1878 forced her to lead two very separate lives. She was both a professional woman and a mother, hiding both her husband and child in Germany.Author Silvia Pettem has a knack for pulling intriguing women out of the past through her books on history, biography, missing and unidentified persons, and true crime.__________Author Book Signing and Q&amp;A at Boulder Book Store in the Pearl Street Mall.10/22/2024, Tuesday @ 6:30 pm, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO 80302, 303-447-2074.Top authors are interviewed on this 10-minute program that captures their words about their books and ideas and often the story behind the story. The show, hosted by Diana Korte and engineered by Gene Korte, is in its 29th year of production.</div></body>

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Booktalk: Local author and Historical Researcher Silvia Pettem’s “SEPARATE LIVES. Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon”

Host Diana Korte speaks with author and historian Silvia Pettem, who has published more than 20 books and lives with her husband and two cats in the mountains west of Boulder. Her newest title, “SEPARATE LIVES”, is the true story of Mary Rippon, a pioneer woman educator who lived and worked in the male-dominated world of 19th century academia at the University of Colorado in the then small frontier town of Boulder.