Proper noun
Blithedale Canyon, a neighborhood in the city of Mill Valley, California, United States.
A fictional communist community in the 1852 novel, The Blithedale Romance, by American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgMiller, 104 His four major romances were written between 1850 and 1860: The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852) and The Marble Faun (1860). Source: Internet