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EstablishedBrook Farm was financed by selling stock, with each share making its buyer a member; profits were divided by days of labour and members were paid $1 a day for physical or mental work.EstablishedBrook Farm adopted parts of Charles Fourier's system in 1844 and began a Phalanstery, which burned down; the enterprise then gradually failed and the land was sold in 1849.EstablishedNathaniel Hawthorne, an original shareholder, left after about six months, finding he could not write there, and later used a Brook Farm-like setting in his fictional Blithedale Romance (1852).EstablishedRalph Waldo Emerson was invited to join but declined, doubting that members would share the work equally; he later criticised the experiment publicly.