Little Women (2019 film) Little Women (2019 film) Little Women is an upcoming drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig. It is the eighth adaptation of the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Chris Cooper and Meryl Streep. The film is scheduled to be released on December 25, 2019, by Columbia Pictures. "Little Women" explores the lives of sisters in 1860s Massachusetts. According to its producer, the new adaptation focuses more on the March sisters' young adult lives, particularly after
Little Sisters of the Assumption Little Sisters of the Assumption The Little Sisters of the Assumption is a Roman Catholic religious institute founded in France in 1865 by Antoinette Fage (Marie of Jesus) (1824–1883) and Father Etienne Pernet. The declared work of the congregation is the nursing of the sick poor in their own homes. This labour they perform gratuitously and without distinction of creed. The congregation was founded in Paris in 1865, by the Rev. Etienne Pernet, and Marie Antoinette Fage. Both had long been engaged in charitable work, Father Pernet while a professor in the College of the Assumption at Nîmes, and Mlle.