ABSTRACT
The Transcendentalist theme of living a life in harmony with nature, living a form of nature religion which guaranteed morality and justice, took community form at Fruitlands, founded by Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane (Abel Lamb and Timon Lion in the story below) at Harvard, Massachusetts in 1843-4. Louisa May Alcott's (1832-1888) satirical story of 1872 of the brief and disastrous experiment does not stray far from family autobiography.
