Domestic Wounds: Nursing in Louisa May Alcott’s War tales by Daniela Daniele

“…The Civil War remained a major theme even in the tales that she wrote during the Reconstruction Era. They celebrate the professional achievements of sturdy “deaconesses” like Dorothea Dix, who rapidly turned the dilapidated sanitary system of a divided nation into a domestic order restored by female healing powers.…”
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