In 1843 Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane founded the Consociate Family at Fruitlands in Harvard, Massachusetts, a vegetarian community that rejected animal labour, wool and cotton. Sears assembles letters, diaries, including the young Louisa’s, and recollections of its few short months, and adds Louisa May Alcott’s own comic account of the venture, Transcendental Wild Oats.
An entertaining record of one of New England’s most idealistic and least practical utopias. Download the free EPUB.