Five cents from every copy sold was donated by the publisher to orphans made fatherless or homeless by the war. Alcott herself served in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital, just outside Washington, DC, from December 1862 to January 1863, when she fell ill with typhoid pneumonia and was invalided out of the service.Īlcott's Hospital Sketches was first published in the abolitionist journal Boston Commonwealth from May to June 1863, and was published in book form in 1863 (Boston: James Redpath). The number of female nurses increased during 1862 under the direction of Dorothea Dix, a family friend of the Alcotts. Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) was a member of a famous reformist family and was beginning to establish herself as a writer when war broke out.
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