Analysis and reflection from someone endlessly fascinated with Louisa May Alcott. Member/supporter of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, the Louisa May Alcott Society and the Fruitlands Museum.
The first of what became four installments of Hospital Sketches was published in the magazine Boston Commonwealth on May 22, 1863.
Later, in book form, it carried the subtitle “An Army Nurse’s True Account of Her Experiences During the Civil War.”
The author, Louisa May Alcott, had spent about six weeks volunteering at a Union hospital outside of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War. Her letters home were the basis of the book.
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