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Google Books, 'Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories,' https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hospital_Sketches/velHAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. Accessed 14 May 2020. ***** When I was younger, I used to take out stacks upon stacks of books from my public library. I loved the feel of a book in my hands, and I would leave my own little physical mark on it by dog-earring the pages … Continue reading Using a digital surrogate of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Hospital Sketches’ as a micro survey of its readership and history

Hathitrust Digital Library, digitized copy of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" from The New England Magazine 1891-192, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924080769783&view=1up&seq=655. Accessed April 5, 2020. “John is a physician, and perhaps — (I would not say this to another living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) — perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster” (647). This quote, … Continue reading The Alliance Between Medical Truth and the Patriarchy in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper”

Louisa May Alcotta, Hospital Sketches (Boston: James Redpath, 1863); andLouisa May Alcott, Little Women (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888). From the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Photographs by Sophia Lola. Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches, written in 1863, comprises a series of vignettes following Tribulation Periwinkle, a nurse during the Civil War, just before and right as she begins her work treating injured and … Continue reading Gender Roles, Work, and God’s Judgment in “A Day” from Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches