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11 de may. de 2011 · Civil War Collection Vol 2 (LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Homer B. Sprague, U. S. Grant, J.H. Kidd, H. Beam Piper) 900
26 de feb. de 2016 · It was November 1862. Louisa May Alcott had just turned thirty, and she had spent much of that year reluctantly teaching kindergarten. Her family was in dire financial straits, and she had failed to earn a profit from the few short stories she had sold that year. So she made a decision: she would go to Washington to serve as a nurse.
hospital sketches by louisa may alcott lights and shadows in confederate prisons by homer b. sprague, ph.d. personal memoirs of u. s. grant by u. s. grant personal recollections of a cavalryman by j.h. kidd rebel raider by h. beam piper
FROM CHAPTER ELEVEN: I’ve Often Longed to See a War. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, by Harriet Reisen. By 1862, as she approached her thirtieth birthday Louisa was restless, and hungry for adventure before it was too late. “Decided to go to Washington as a nurse if I could find a place,” she wrote in her journal for ...
6 de dic. de 2022 · The Civil War was raging. Alcott’s Civil War journals describing her experiences, along with the letters she sent home, provided the basis for Hospital Sketches (1863). Though the experience was frustratingly short for the fledgling author who wanted to experience all of life, good and bad, her writings provided richly drawn views of the ...
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War Experience 47 this way. Indeed, the sketches have been continually described in such terms; for example, Bessie Z. Jones refers to Hospital Sketches as "un-premeditated art" and "straight-from-the-front reports."9 Even in the most recent biography of Alcott, Susan Cheever writes, "In a world of slow, erratic ...
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War Fiction ELIZABETH YOUNG Mount Holyoke College "WAR WAS MEN'S BUSINESS, NOT LADIES'," REMARKS MARGARET Mitchell's narrator in Gone With the Wind.1 Critical accounts of the fiction of the American Civil War have honored this division, construct-ing a literary genealogy of the war that foregrounds male accounts of
