search and find

I did a plain old Google search to see what I could quickly find out about Alcott's fictionalized account of her time as a civil war nurse, called Hospital Sketches. I was thinking it would be a real challenge to locate the work itself, but I might come across someone else who had discussed it, or maybe a reference to a compliation of her work that it was published in, and then I could request it from my great local library.

But I almost instantly found the entire text in html!! What a wonderful thing to have an idea, and then have the info almost immediately. The site seems to be hosted by a upenn project about women writers. After I get through it I will have to search again for comments and analysis- perhaps someone has divided the actual experiences and the fiction- after all I don't see mention of her near death. What a dreadful place hospitals used to be.