Half a Moon: 14 Days of Celebrating Women

I would love to read a story about Jo March that doesn't marry her off to a poverty-stricken German intellectual, at least not right away. Why can't Jo have some adventures of her own first? Maybe she could be a nurse in a Civil War hospital, like Alcott herself, maybe minus the falling ill and nearly dying part. I can imagine her disguising herself as a boy and running away to join the Union Army. I'm resigned to Jo not marrying Laurie (let Amy deal with his neuroses) but why couldn't Jo get to travel all over Europe, maybe after she publishes her first novel? Getting married and running a school for boys seems like a poor sort of future for a talented, ambitious, unconventional woman like Jo. I bet Alcott would agree.