She has toured internationally, recently as guest vocalist with Jazz Jamaica, and as part of Women In Jazz and the Jamaica Big Band.

She also is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

It was chosen to encourage increased female participation in the technological, engineering and industrial sciences as part of "Women in Engineering in Ireland Year."

In recognition of that - sort of - he will receive a gold-plated horseshoe today as part of the third annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day celebration of the Women's Sports Foundation.

The idea of the school is first suggested at the very end of part two of "Little Women", when Jo inherited the estate from her Aunt March.

The later instructive tales make us remember with no fondness the parts of "Little Women" that were tough to take, like the valiant Marmee's homilies about charity and altruism.

Bowmoore Gallery, London (part of Women in Art exhibition, 10 paintings)

As part of "Women on the Rise!

Jo writes the first part of Little Women during the second portion of the novel.

This was evident after the publication of part one of Little Women when girls wrote Alcott asking her "who the little women marry."