Louisa May Alcott, Civil War Nurse
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- Channels Mentioned in This Video:
Deea @novelideea
• Alcott April is coming!!
(see her description/notes for the other hosts!)
Titles Mentioned in This Video:
Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War by Samantha Seiple
Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela D. Toler PhD (Author), Ridley Scott (Foreword)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Video/Television series/Movies:
Mercy Street Video (television series, PBS) Seasons 1 and 2
I'm late to the party attempting to do this tag, but here are a few books I read on Louisa May Alcott and some of her neighbours as well as the nurses of the Civil War!
I’ve ordered the book on Louisa and her nursing career. This had eluded me so welcome reading it soon.
I so enjoyed this video as I adore Louisa May Alcott. As a child I read all her books. Of course, I started with “ Little Women” and after that book I had to read all that she wrote. This past year ( and will soon have a birthday too… hope to be 75 in a few days) I started to delve into Louisa’s biography. I, too, agree wholeheartedly with you about Louisa’s father. Bronson Alcott failed as a husband and father in every way. I was astounded by his ego and self- importance. Marme was in today’s world would be considered abused. Marker’s salvation was Louisa’s love, care and hard work.Now about Thoreau… interesting that at one point Louisa had a girlhood crush on him. Thoreau thought I consider to be of the same ilk as Bronson … head in the clouds, dedicated to their ideas and ideals but seemingly always financially supported by others… primarily Emerson, who inherited his money from a wife with money. I definitely will be looking for the books you’ve recommended here today as I find Louisa and tge Transcendentalists fascinating. Happy belated birthday.May is such a great month to celebrate in up north. Be well.
Yes! You hit the nail on the head, Barbara! I do admire Thoreau's writing immensely, but he definitely wasn't living off the land away from civilization. And that's fine, just a bit surprising. And the fact that he, like Bronson Alcott was supported by his mom and sister in the background is interesting. Bronson Alcott annoys me in that he'd have his daughters and wife iron his poet blouses, and then go off for months at a time speaking about philosophy, leaving them destitute and having to fend for themselves. Argh. But Emerson considered Alcott one of the most brilliant men of his time, so there's that in his favor. : ) And he DID go and rescue Louisa when she was ill and near death at the Army hospital. It was also interesting to learn that abolitionism and suffragism weren't perfect, either. There was that practiced by white women and that practiced by black women were definitely at odds. I have an interesting ancestor named Hester Jeffrey who was sort of in-between the two. She was black, and was a known suffragette here in my town; but she was also a good friend of Susan B. Anthony and gave a eulogy at her funeral.
Wow what an amazing ancestor you had. Your kind words for Bronson I’m afraid are list on me. Nice that Emerson found him brilliant but I still think of him as half crazed and a bit of a pompous, arrogant charlatan. He “ borrowed” so many ideas from Elizabeth Peabody who was a seemingly enlightened educator and he lived by not only “ borrowing “ intellectually but fiscally as well. Most notably he borrowed money often from Emerson. Interestingly enough Emerson’s money came I believe from his second marriage. I look at these male Transcendentalists as men with their head in the clouds living off the labor of women around them.
Hi Celeste! I love this discussion! People are so interesting...I laughed so hard when you mentioned the laundry! 💕
Well, it wouldn't really be relevant if he were writing about anything else, but when full-grown men are playing at "roughing it" and delighting in the simple, "self-sufficient" life in nature, it seems a bit hypocritical to have Mom doing your long johns and sister bringing you turnovers! 😉
How interesting! I had no idea she was a nurse. As silly as it may seem, as a nurse myself, I feel a little sense of kinship with her now.💜 I'll be looking at her works with a different eye to see where her experience may have had an impact on her writing.
Lovely! I hope you enjoy it. The Louisa on the front lines book discusses all of that! 😊
This was lovely! I am so glad you got to join us to celebrate LMA! I will look for “front lines”.
😂we all walked away not living Bronson Alcott!
That is quite the edition of Friendship!
I think if you enjoy social history and want to learn more about the back story for Little Women, you’ll enjoy it. 😊