Louisa May's battle
Subtitle: how the Civil War led to Little Women
By: Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Carlyn Beccia
Contributors: Beccia, Carlyn, illustrator
Series: EZ reading
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
ISBN-13: 9780545607353
Subjects: Juvenile literature; American Authors; Biography; Nurses; History
Description: "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."--Amazon.
Notes: Map and text of the battle of Fredericksburg found on back end paper.

"Art created with Corel Painter digital oils on gessoed canvas."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

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