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Hospital sketches / by Louisa May Alcott ; edited with an introduction by Alice Fahs.

Title
Hospital sketches / by Louisa May Alcott ; edited with an introduction by Alice Fahs.
Author
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Publication
Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Fahs, Alice
  • Cairns Collection of American Women Writers WU
Description
xiii, 138 p. : ill, ports.; 18 cm.
Summary
An account of Alcott's stint as a nurse for wounded soldiers in Washington, D. C. during the winter of 1862-1863.-- preface.
Series Statement
Bedford series in history and culture
Uniform Title
Bedford series in history and culture
Subject
  • Alcott, Louisa May
  • 1800-1899
  • Military Nursing
  • Hospitals, Military
  • Nurses > Washington (D.C.) > Biography
  • Women authors, American > 19th century > Biography
  • District of Columbia
  • United States > Hospitals > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
Genre/Form
  • Personal Narrative
  • Biographies
  • History
  • Personal narratives
Note
  • Originally published: Boston : J. Redpath, 1863.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-131) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: Louisa May Alcott's Civil War -- The Alcott Family -- The struggle for work -- Alcott's early literary career -- The coming of war -- Becoming a nurse -- Battle of Fredericksburg -- Hospital life and medical care -- The creation of Hospital Sketches -- Alcott's literary style -- Claiming a place for women in the war effort -- The social landscape of the hospital -- Hospital Sketches and the meanings of the Civil War -- Notes -- Hospital Sketches, by Louisa May Alcott -- Obtaining supplies -- A forward movement -- A day -- A night -- Off duty -- A postscript -- Chronology of Louisa May Alcott's Life (1830-1888) -- Questions for Consideration -- Selected Bibliography.
ISBN
0312260288 (pbk.)
LCCN
9780312260286
OCLC
  • 53710936
  • SCSB-11924277
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library