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【PART Ⅰ】 (Music). o, everyone. ed to Studio Classroom Worldwide. My name is Steve. Thanks for joining us today. We are in the middle of this months Historical People feature, highlighting the life of author Louisa May Alcott. Alcott was an American author who lived during the mid 1800s. Now, few authors, and even fewer female authors, achieved the success Alcott enjoyed. One reason for her success was that her writing was inspired. Inspired in large part by her own experiences, Alcott drew heavily on her al life which, like her books, was pretty extraordinary and so very, very entertaining. Lets learn more about this author as we begin todays lesson on the page 49. Life with Louisa When poverty began to her family, 15­year­old Alcott pledged to help proclaiming, Ill be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I wont! Determined to keep her promise to help her family, Alcott began contributing to the familys e almost immedia y. To do so, she worked as a teacher, seamstress and servant, all the while continuing to write. When the American Civil War broke out, Alcott enlisted as a nurse. One year later, Hospital Sketches(1863) was published detailing her experiences and propelling Alcott into the limelight. Hi, friends. ed to Studio Classroom Worldwide. Im Chip. And Im Linda. And were continuing with day two of our... our historical Louisa May Alcott. We learned yesterday she was, uh, an author, a very famous American author. And we talked about her growing up and... um... being influenced by great authors like Thoreau and Emerson and Hawthorne. Right. So these, uh, very knowledgeable authors were family friends of the Alcotts. And so they enlightened her and they influenced her life a great deal. Well, lets learn a little bit more about her life. Our article for today starts off by saying that when poverty or the state of being poor and not having mu o