From Boston to Concord, in the Footsteps of ‘Little Women’

. The cherished clapboard home with the green front door feels deeply familiar, and I can imagine the four sisters squeezing into one window frame with ebullient laughter, peering for Marmee.Since the film premiered, there's been a fresh burst of visitors walking through these doors to learn from the women who nourish and nurture Alcott's legacy at this memorial museum.

Turnquist describes her decades-long relationship with Alcott as akin to a marriage enriched through life’s seasons. When I ask her why “Little Women” continues to resonate, she pauses before responding. “Here is a woman, and back to the core, a human being. She just writes from her heart, even though it’s fiction. The heart of it is true—and it’s really her life and her soul coming forth. And that’s always powerful. Time doesn’t diminish that kind of power.

Alcott was a literary spinster. Jo wishes to be one too, although that “happy ending” is inconceivable to a male editor and 19th-century readers. The author must marry off all of her beloved characters for the book to sell , twisting their fate—even as it marches against her own. The story Alcott told is not the one she lived, and so what would she have me do?

Thinking about the compromises and choices women make, I walk through Concord's downtown, and then to North Bridge, the spot where American militia fired the first shots of the Revolutionary War. Alcott had a penchant for running through the countryside in her skirts and, most likely, her adventures brought her to the banks of the Concord River. Here, Jo also bears out a moment in the movie, reckoning with her choice to turn down a proposal in favor of independence.

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