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Jennifer Wilson

Jennifer Wilson is a writer and critic. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. (August 2019)

Wounded soldiers resting with a nurse, Civil War, circa 1864

From the Battlefield to ‘Little Women’

Louisa May Alcott’s letters home from the front lines, later published as Hospital Sketches (1863), proved that her true gift lay not in inventing new worlds, but in observing the one around her.

August 28, 2019

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