[not so] little woman

There's a place in a local cemetery where some very famous American philosophers and writers are buried, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne and the Alcotts. I went there for the first time today and saw the grave of Louisa May Alcott. Some of the headstones had little memorials made of rocks and pinecones. Louisa May Alcott's was the most 'ornately' decorated, so to speak. So simple and so autumnal.

She's still a quite popular author; I think every American girl reads the book Little Women at some point. Is this true in other English-speaking countries?