- Biography, Career in nursing, Classic Literature, Fiction
An account of Alcott's stint as a nurse for wounded soldiers in Washington, D. C. during the winter of American Civil War in 1862-1863.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Louisa May Alcott
- First published
- 1863
- Pages
- 84
- Publisher
- Hesperides Press, Minerva Group Inc, NuVision Publications, LLC
- Editions
- 237
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798634181387
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Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, were educated by their father, philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at "Hillside". Like her character, "Jo March" in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy. "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, "and no girl if she refused to climb trees,
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