The Wayside him. In March 1846, the family added a bedroom for their 13-year-old daughter Louisa May Alcott. It was the first room she had to herself. She wrote in her journal, "It does me very good to be alone, and Mother has made it very pretty and neat for me." In this home, Louisa and her sisters lived many of the scenes that later appeared in her book "Little Women" (1868–69), including the amateur plays they performed. She also began writing what would become her first book, "Flower Fables" (1854). Bronson opened the home to many people, including Sophia Foord, a
Little Sisters of Jesus about a country whose frontiers were closed she wanted to go there. Believing that even an iron curtain could open, from 1957 onwards she began her journeys to Eastern Europe. Every year she left discreetly with a small group of Little Sisters to visit friends in the different countries behind the iron curtain. Such journeys prepared for the present day communities in these countries. She travelled in a van, rearranged for up to four Little Sisters to live and sleep in, which she called ‘the Shooting star’. In the front of the van, the Blessed Sacrament was reserved as it