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Hospital Sketches
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Hospital Sketches Paperback - 2010

by Louisa May Alcott


From the publisher

Several years before Louisa May Alcott created Little Women (1868), her most well known novel, she worked as a nurse at a soldiers' hospital in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. Drawing on that experience, Alcott wrote Hospital Sketches (1863), a vivid account that offers rich insights into women's wartime roles, the shocking conditions in soldiers' hospitals, the lives of the soldiers themselves, and the racial prejudice of the time. Part of a vast outpouring of popular Civil War literature published during the conflict, Hospital Sketches tells us much about mid-nineteenth-century literary culture and the ways in which the war was re-created in literature for the reading public in the North. Alice Fahs's introduction supplies biographical, literary, and historical context for Alcott's work. Illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography add to the volume's value.

Details

  • Title Hospital Sketches
  • Author Louisa May Alcott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 66
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Readaclassic.com
  • Date 2010-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781611042313 / 1611042313
  • Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.14 in (22.91 x 15.19 x 0.36 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American writer. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Little Women (1868), set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts. Little Women was published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters. Alcott based the heroine from Little Women, Jo, on herself, but whereas Jo marries at the end of the story, Alcott never married.