Book
Louisa May's Battle : how the Civil War led to Little Women
Record details
- ISBN: 0802796699 (reinforced)
- ISBN: 9780802796691 (reinforced)
- ISBN: 0802796680 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780802796684 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Walker & Co., 2013.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Nurses United States Biography Authors, American 19th century Biography Alcott, Louisa May 1832-1888 |
Available copies
- 2 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | J B A355k (Text) | 33126018460091 | JBiography | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | J B A355k (Text) | 33126018460109 | JBiography | Checked out | 05/07/2024 |
| Independence Branch | J B A355k (Text) | 33126018460083 | JBiography | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Recounts the author's experiences as a young woman caring for wounded Union soldiers in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War and the impact that these experiences had on her development as an author. - Baker & Taylor
Explores the classic author's Civil War experiences as a nurse and the published letters home that marked Alcott's first successes as a writer, explaining how her volunteer work inspired realism in her stories and helped her discover and develop her writing style. - McMillan Palgrave
Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little Women, which was one of the first novels to be set during the Civil War. It was the book that made her dreams come true, and a story she could never have written without the time she spent healing others in service of her country.