She is but a girl: Talk of Young Women as Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Records of the English Consistory Courts, 1550–1650
A remarkable document from England’s Consistory Court of Chester contains a harrowing account of young Katherine Prescott’s coming of age.² Her father, Henry, determined that twelve-year-old Katherine should marry William Bower, aged fifteen, who was ‘of a very good estate […] in good[es], tenement[...
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