HOSPITAL SKETCHES
Louisa May Alcott
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Hospital Sketches
by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
In December of 1862, Alcott traveled to Washington, DC to serve as a nurse ina Union hospital. Six weeks later she contracted typhoid and returned home to | Concord, Massachusetts. rare May Alcott Hospital Sketches, her first work to receive wide critical
and popular notice, was published a year later and is a fictionalized account of her sometimes grim, occasionally humorous, and frequently poignant experiences caring
for wounded soldiers.
Read by Aaron Elliott Total running time: 3:08:19
Cover design by Kathryn Delaney Illustration from Harpers Weekly, August 17, 1861
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