Library's review
Civil War nurse Louisa May Alcott wrote letters home describing her work caring for wounded soldiers. These letters were the foundation for her later successful writing of Little Women. Sources, Maps, Bibliography
Publication
Walker Childrens (2013), 48 pages
Description
"Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little Women, which was one of the first novels to be set during the Civil War. It was the book that made her dreams come true, and a story she could never have written without the time she spent healing others in service of her country." - Amazon.
Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2015)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2014)
Language
Original language
English
Pages
48
Physical description
48 p.; 11.37 inches
ISBN
0802796680 / 9780802796684
DDC/MDS
813.4 |
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