I am reviewing a copy of Louisa on the Front Lines through Pereseus Books and Netgalley:
This book focuses on the least known aspect of Louisa May Alcott’s career, her time spent on the frontlines. Her time there was short but the experience was a pivotal one in forming her best loved classic Little Woman. It also effected in a deep way her tenuo relationship with her Father and it inspired her commitment to Abolition. Through out her time there she wrote letters to her family as well as kept a journal. The letters were first publi in The Newspaper and then in her book hospital sketches. The book and the letters brought to light the horrid conditions in the military hospitals as well as the suffering the wounded soldiers endured.
To this day Louias May Alcott considered her work a pioneering account of military nursing.
I give Louisa on the Frontlines five out of five stars!
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