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 ...
Read More
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.
Read Less
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches to cart. $3.21, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford Books.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches to cart. $3.21, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford Books.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches to cart. $3.21, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford Books.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches to cart. $3.21, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford Books.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches to cart. $3.21, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford Books.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches (Bedford Series in History and to cart. $3.22, fair condition, Sold by Gulf Coast Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Memphis, TN, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford/St. Martin's.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches (Bedford Series in History & Culture) to cart. $7.00, very good condition, Sold by Redbrick Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford/St. Martin's.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches (Bedford Series in History and to cart. $12.49, very good condition, Sold by FirstClassBooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Little Rock, AR, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford Books.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches (Bedford Series in History and to cart. $12.49, good condition, Sold by FirstClassBooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Little Rock, AR, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford Books.
Add this copy of Hospital Sketches (Bedford Series in History & Culture) to cart. $14.95, new condition, Sold by Eighth Day Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wichita, KS, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Bedford/St. Martin's.
