Author Louisa May Alcott ... in the Union cause and served as a nurse in Washington, D.C., starting in December 1862. The National Museum of Civil War Medicine reports on her experiences ...

The author of “Little Women” may have been ... Barnard was an Alcott pseudonym. She also wrote nonfiction stories, including about the Civil War where she served as a nurse, under the ...

In the New York Times on Dec. 24, journalist and author Peyton Thomas argues that “Little Women” author and female American literary great Louisa May Alcott ... the Civil War) felt great ...

and books about true-life experiences as a nurse tending to Union soldiers during the Civil War. The result was “Only Gossip Prospers: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott in New York” (Pink Umbrella ...

Louisa May Alcott inspired generations of girls with ... Louisa (who contracted typhoid during six weeks as a Civil War nurse) comforting a mortally wounded young blacksmith, holding his hand ...

and Meg - as they navigate the challenges of growing up during the American Civil War. You read it in high school, now watch the classic novel, by Louisa May Alcott come to life. Starring Maya ...

Like her heroine Jo March, Louisa ... Alcott herself was a tomboy, a writer, an independent woman, like Jo March. But it was Alcott, not her father, who went to the Civil War; she enlisted as a ...

The author of “Little Women” may have ... Barnard — an Alcott pseudonym. She also wrote nonfiction stories — including about the Civil War, during which she served as a nurse — under ...

Had it not been for the busy and lucrative pen of their second daughter, Louisa May, the Alcott family might have ... A professor turned Civil War hero, rugby at West Point, Streisand on Streisand ...

(AP) — The author of “Little Women” may have ... Barnard was an Alcott pseudonym. She also wrote nonfiction stories, including about the Civil War where she served as a nurse, under the ...

This year, a strange new fable has emerged in this holiday tradition — and the Christmas miracle is that it was written by none other than Louisa May ... as a nurse during the Civil War, to ...