Although anxious about her upcoming service, Louisa was confident that the adventure would do her good – “whether I come out alive or dead.” Louisa’s father, the prominent educator, philosopher, and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, held his four daughters to high educational and moral standards, and Louisa, as a result, was as serious-minded as she was witty. Her absence would mean one less mouth for her family to feed, and besides, she wrote in her journal, “help needed…and must let out my pent-up energy in some new way.” So she made a decision: she would go to Washington to serve as a nurse. Her family was in dire financial straits, and she had failed to earn a profit from the few short stories she had sold that year. Louisa May Alcott had just turned thirty, and she had spent much of that year reluctantly teaching kindergarten.
Louisa May Alcott Posted on: February 26th, 2016
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