Create your own 'Little Women' itinerary in the US

Fans can visit author Alcott’s Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, where she wrote Little Women. — JOHN WOODWORTH/ROBERT HARDING/dpa

A rural New England cemetery is not where you’d expect to spot four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan and other Hollywood A-listers on a crisp autumn day.

But there the actors were in 2018, and now on screens around the world, in the Old Burying Ground cemetery in Groton, Massachussets in the United States, just one of several real-life locations that director Greta Gerwig used in her much-applauded remake of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women. In the book as well as in the film, set in the 1800s, when marrying a wealthy man was considered a woman’s only path to success, Jo March, one of four sisters, rocks the boat by aiming first to have a career.