CIVIL WAR NURSING1862-63 HOSPITAL SKETCHES Louisa May Alcott Alice Fahs NORTH PB

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CIVIL WAR NURSING1862-63 HOSPITAL SKETCHES Louisa May Alcott Alice Fahs NORTH PB:
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- Civil War Nursing -

Nice clean softcover copy of\"HOSPITAL SKETCHES\"by Louisa May Alcott, edited with an Introduction by Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine, for The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Bedford/St. Martin\'s. 2004, 138 pages including an Alcott chronology, select bibliography, index. A few illustrations.

Condition:Only the lightest possible wear to the cover, otherwise this book is neat and clean inside and out.

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.

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