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.

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Cover design by Kathryn Delaney Illustration from Harpers Weekly, August 17, 1861

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