Civil War Hospital Sketches

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802796699
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisa May's Battle written by Kathleen Krull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's experiences as a young woman caring for wounded Union soldiers in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War and the impact that these experiences had on her development as an author.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473370221
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Sketches written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Louisa May Alcott was originally published in 1863 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Alcott, watched men go off to war from her home town and wrote in her diary, " as I can't fight, I will content myself to help those who can." On her 30th birthday she went to Washington D. C. to sign up as a nurse. She spent 6 weeks serving in a field hospital and what came out of it were this slightly fictionalized and highly successful sketches of what she had seen.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486138178
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Hospital Sketches written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the author of Little Women during the winter of 1862–63, these memoirs reveal the realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427021368
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Sketches (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) written by Louisa May Alcott and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane E. Schultz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864153
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women at the Front written by Jane E. Schultz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 0918222788
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Sketches written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494743741
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of John written by Louisa May Alcott and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of John is a short story by Louisa May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. 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. With her pen name Louisa wrote novels for young adults in juvenile hall. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist. She died in Boston. Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, which is now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on her father's 33rd birthday. She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest. The family moved to Boston in 1838, where Alcott's father established an experimental school and joined the Transcendental Club with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Bronson Alcott's opinions on education and tough views on child-rearing shaped young Alcott's mind with a desire to achieve perfection, a goal of the transcendentalists. His attitudes towards Alcott's sometimes wild and independent behavior, and his inability to provide for his family, sometimes created conflict between Bronson Alcott and his wife and daughters.

Author : Samantha Seiple
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1580058035
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisa on the Front Lines written by Samantha Seiple and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the far-reaching implications her service had on her writing and her activism Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa May Alcott's career -- her time spent as a nurse during the Civil War. Though her service was brief, the dramatic experience was one that she considered pivotal in helping her write the beloved classic Little Women. It also deeply affected her tenuous relationship with her father, and inspired her commitment to abolitionism. Through it all, she kept a journal and wrote letters to her family and friends. These letters were published in the newspaper, and her subsequent book, Hospital Sketches spotlighted the dire conditions of the military hospitals and the suffering endured by the wounded soldiers she cared for. To this day, her work is considered a pioneering account of military nursing. Alcott's time as an Army nurse in the Civil War helped her find her authentic voice -- and cemented her foundational belief system. Louisa on the Frontlines reveals the emergence of this prominent feminist and abolitionist -- a woman whose life and work has inspired millions and continues to do so today,

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Sketches written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis May Alcott, best known for her novel "Little Women", wrote this before that time when she was working as a nurse in a hospital during the American Civil War. The book vividly describes the conditions in those hospitals and is an interesting insight into the social and cultural mores of that time.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781404366190
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Sketches written by Louisa May Alcott and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.