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Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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...