![]() Jones, who has degrees from Chicago and Michigan, trained as a nurse in World War I and served as nurse’s aid in World War II. The author of Little Women wrote personal letters. Part of a vast outpouring of popular Civil War literature published during the conflict, Hospital Sketches tells us much about mid-nineteenth-century. One of the first personal reports of its kind, this is a major record of the medical practices and the unprecedented hospital work of women during the Civil War. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Book Number: 89189 Product format: Paperback. ![]() ![]() Hospital Sketches describes her introduction to the realities of war-death and disease, the aftermath of battle as she saw it in the Union Hotel Hospital, Georgetown, where she was a volunteer nurse in 1862. When Louisa May Alcott waved goodbye to a Concord company of soldiers in April 1861, she was excited by the display and enthusiastic for the cause. They are also available to institutions in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire spectrum of the Press’s catalog. The 2,800 titles in the “e-ditions” program can be purchased individually as PDF eBooks or as hardcover reprint (“print-on-demand”) editions via the “Available from De Gruyter” link above. Harvard University Press has partnered with De Gruyter to make available for sale worldwide virtually all in-copyright HUP books that had become unavailable since their original publication. ACTIVITY Engage: Read the selection of Louisa May Alcott’s 1863 book Hospital Sketches in Appendix A. ![]()
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