1. March, 8: International Women’s Day Starting in New York City in 1857, women workers made a tradition of labor actions and protests on March 8. In 1910, the first International Women's Day was celebrated on the same day. This photo shows an early Women's Day protest.
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3. LITTLE WOMEN The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House , in Concord, Massachusetts . It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 . The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first volume Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, prompting the composition of the book's second volume titled Good Wives , which was successful as well. The publication of the book as a single volume first occurred in 1880 and was titled Little Women . Alcott followed Little Women with two sequels, also featuring the March sisters, Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). There have been several films based in this book. The oldest was directed by George Cukor in 1933. other movie was directed by Mervyn Leroy in 1949 and the last version was directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1994.
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