Little Women Little Women Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Scholars classify "Little Women" as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. "Little Women" was an immediate commercial and critical success with readers demanding to know more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed
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