Little Women (1933 film) 1994 film "Little Women", starring Winona Ryder, and the upcoming 2019 film "Little Women" featuring Saoirse Ronan. Set in Concord, Massachusetts, during and after the American Civil War, the film is a series of vignettes focusing on the struggles and adventures of the four March sisters and their mother, affectionately known as Marmee (Spring Byington), while they await the return of their father (Samuel S. Hinds), who serves as a colonel and a chaplain in the Union Army. Spirited tomboy Jo (Katharine Hepburn), who caters to the whims of their well-to-do Aunt March (Edna May Oliver), dreams of becoming 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