In the title story Portia, Polly and Pris, indignant after young men drink too much at a party, resolve to banish wine from their own homes and to change the habits of their town. The collection adds Independence, a love story for the Centennial of 1876, and shorter pieces including Transcendental Wild Oats, Alcott’s comic memory of her father’s Fruitlands commune.
Lesser-known Alcott, and the place to find her sharpest satire of the idealists who raised her. Download the free EPUB.