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Hospital Sketches

by Louisa May Alcott

History

Open Library OL30060W

Hospital Sketches is a compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown.

About the author

Alcott’s Little Women follows four sisters through work, ambition, and domestic life without treating those subjects as small. It has been read as a family story and as a book about becoming a writer. More of this shelf for Louisa May Alcott.

Where to read it

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