Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

by Richard Francis

Book Overview

The fascinating story of Bronson Alcott's utopian experiment

This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful--but most significant--utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030014041X
• ISBN13: 9780300140415
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"