Louisa May Alcott Goes to War

Eager to support the North, the budding author volunteered for a fledgling corps of female nurses… For generations of Americans, Louisa May Alcott has been revered as the author of Little Women (1868), the semi-autobiographical novel about four sisters living in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father served in the Civil War. InLittle Women and its equally popular sequels, …

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