Hospital Sketches

by Louisa May Alcott

Overview

Hospital Sketches is a set of sketches based on letters sent by Louisa May Alcott during the six weeks she spent as a nurse for the Union Army in Georgetown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442944121
Publisher:	ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Publication date:	07/16/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	192 KB

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).[1] Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
Alcott's family suffered financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults.

Table of Contents

PART I.
    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 Meaning of the Civil War
    Notes
    
PART II.
  Hospital Sketches, by Louisa May Alcott
    I. Obtaining Supplies
    II. A Forward Movement
    III. A Day
    IV. A Night
    V. Off Duty
    VI. A Postscript
    
APPENDICES
    Chronology of Louisa
    May Alcott's Life
    Questions for Consideration
    Selected Bibliography
    
  Index