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 the Mother of Sorrows Little Sisters of the Mother of Sorrows The Little Sisters of the Mother of Sorrows (Italian: "Suore Minime dell'Addolorata"; Latin: "Institutum Sororum Minimarum a Virgine Perdolente") is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common. Their mission includes missionary work, pastoral ministry, education of youth, and care of the sick and aged. This religious institute was founded in Le Budrie, near San Giovanni in Persiceto, Italy, in 1868, by st. Clelia Barbieri. The sisters have houses in Brazil, India, Italy and Tanzania. The