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The members of the Alcott family were not happy with their Fruitlands experience.

At one point, Abby May threatened that she and their daughters would move elsewhere, leaving Bronson behind.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.